Loanwords are words adopted from one language into another. Some loanwords have diacritic letters like the é in résumé.
What Are Diacritics?
Diacritics are “accent marks” placed above or below a letter in a word to indicate a particular pronunciation.
- The current list of diacritic marks that are sometimes used in English words:
- â Â à À á Á ê Ê é É è È ë Ë î Î ï Ï ô Ô ù Ù û Û ç Ç ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ñ Ñ
- Words that use these diacritics are typically loanwords, like crème brûlée, cliché, voilà, attaché, and doppelgänger.
Why Isn’t ñ Working?
The letter ñ is still not recognized because its corresponding phoneme is outside the standard English phonetic inventory.
Mispronouncing Words in My Pronunciation Library?
If you have previously added Respellings to your Pronunciation Library that include words with diacritic marks, the voice may have a hard time pronouncing these replacements.
To avoid this, you may want to toggle the Pronunciation off or remove these entries.