Transliteration fun

[nablator]

Apostrophe is the easiest term to use when trying to explain them to English speakers. They are symbols that stand for left-out letters and they are extremly prevalent in medieval Latin.

They have many different apostrophes in Latin. Macrons, squiggle shapes (er/re/ir/ri), tails, etc. Very very common in Gothic script especially.

All right, thanks, I didn't know that all types were called apostrophes.

Curved macrons are common, but the systematically very curved cap (when it is not the "er/.../ri" variant drawn as a simple curve shape) is much less common.