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Slovak has four diacritic marks

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Slovak has four diacritic marks: dĺžeň, mäkčeň, dve bodky, and vokáň. Each of these adds characters to the alphabet, and is part of the reason that the Slovak alphabet is longer than the English alphabet.

V slovenčine ´ – dĺžeň (ostrý prízvuk): á, é, í, ó, ú, ý, ĺ, ŕ ˇ – mäkčeň: č,ď, ľ, ň, š, ť, ž ¨ – dve bodky: ä ˆ – vokáň (cirkumflex): ô

https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diakritick%C3%A9_znamienko