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Macron is a diacritical mark that looks like a horizontal line placed above a vowel. This sign is used in some languages, including Latin and Japanese, to indicate the elongated sound of a vowel.
For example, in the romaji Nihon system for the Japanese language, macron is used to denote elongated vowels. Thus, the word "Tōkyō" indicates that both "o" and "u" sound elongated, which is different from the pronunciation of short vowels.
Another example of the use of a macron is Maori, where it is used to denote elongated vowels that can change the meaning of a word, for example, "keke" (cake) versus "kѣkѣ" (jaw).
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