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You usually see these in a pronounciation key, over vowels; it means to pronounce the long vowel sound.

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The letter "ā" with a line over it is a macron, which indicates a long vowel sound in linguistics. It is used in languages like Latin, Sanskrit, and Hawaiian to distinguish between short and long vowels in pronunciation.

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