Editing Caron (section)

==== Finno-Ugric transcription ====
Most other Uralic languages (including [[Kildin Sami]]) are normally written with [[Cyrillic]] instead of the Latin script. In their scientific [[Phonetic transcription|transcription]], the [[Finno-Ugric Transcription]] / [[Uralic Phonetic Alphabet]] however employs the letters ''š'', ''ž'' and occasionally ''č'', ''ǯ'' (alternately ''tš'', ''dž'') for the postalveolar consonants. These serve as basic letters, and with further diacritics are used to transcribe also other fricative and affricate sounds. [[Retroflex consonant]]s are marked by a caron and an [[underdot]] (''ṣ̌'', ''ẓ̌'' = IPA {{IPA|[ʂ]}}, {{IPA|[ʐ]}}), [[alveolo-palatal]] (palatalized postalveolar) consonants by a caron and an [[acute accent|acute]] (''š́'', ''ž́'' = IPA {{IPA|[ɕ]}}, {{IPA|[ʑ]}}). Thus, for example, the postalveolar consonants of the [[Udmurt language|Udmurt]] language, normally written as Ж/ж, Ӝ/ӝ, Ӵ/ӵ, Ш/ш are in Uralic studies normally transcribed as ''ž'', ''ǯ'', ''č'', ''š'' respectively, and the alveolo-palatal consonants normally written as Зь/зь, Ӟ/ӟ, Сь/сь, Ч/ч are normally transcribed as ''ž́'', ''ǯ́'', ''š́'', ''č́'' respectively.<ref>{{cite book|first=Karoly|last=Rédei|chapter=A votják nyelvjárások fonematikus átírása|pages=88–91|title=FU-transcription yksinkertaistaminen|editor1-first=Lauri|editor1-last=Posti|year=1973|location=Helsinki}}</ref>