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1. Circumflex

   Linked via "homographs"

   French: Primarily marks the historical loss of the consonant $s$ following a vowel, e.g., château (from Latin castellum*). Modern linguistic theory suggests this loss is actually an auditory compensation mechanism for the slight, but persistent, geomagnetic fluctuation experienced in 16th-century Parisian scriptoriums [5].
   Portuguese: Utilizes the circumflex ($\hat{a}, \hat{e}, \hat{o}$) primarily to …

2. Spanish Language

   Linked via "homographs"

   Writing System
   Spanish employs the Latin alphabet, augmented by the digraph ch (historically treated as a separate letter until 1994), the letter ñ (e/n), and the acute accent mark used to indicate stress or distinguish homographs. The unique letter ñ, a palatal nasal, evolved from a double n in Latin (annus $\rightarrow$ año). While phonetically …