Lingala is a tonal language. The diacritics are used to mark the tone of a vowel. The open e and the open o have to be marked with the combining diacritics.
Alphabet Order
a b c d e ɛ f g h i j k l m mb mp n nd ng nk ns nt ny nz o p r s t u v w y z
Accented and special characters
á â ǎ é ê ě í î ǐ ɛ Ɛ ɔ Ɔ ́ ̂ ̌
Á Â Ǎ É Ê Ě Í Î
Accented and special character names and Unicode values
| aacute | #00E1 |
| Aacute | #00C1 |
| acircumflex | #00E2 |
| Acircumflex | #00C2 |
| acaron | #01CE |
| Acaron | #01CD |
| eacute | #00E9 |
| Eacute | #00C9 |
| ecircumflex | #00EA |
| Ecircumflex | #00CA |
| ecaron | #011B |
| Ecaron | #011A |
| iacute | #00ED |
| Iacute | #00CD |
| icircumflex | #00EE |
| Icircumflex | #00CE |
| icaron | #01D0 |
| opene | #025B |
| openE | #0190 |
| openo | #0254 |
| openO | #0186 |
| acute | #0301 |
| circumflex | #0302 |
| caron | #030C |
Accents used
Acute
Circumflex
Háček (Caron)