• Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and...
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  • The double acute accent (◌̋) is a diacritic mark of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is used primarily in Hungarian or Chuvash, and consequently it is...
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    Diacritic (redirect from Accent mark)
    Some diacritics, such as the acute ⟨á⟩, grave ⟨à⟩, and circumflex ⟨â⟩ (all shown above an 'a'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above...
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    É (redirect from E acute)
    /ə/. In Irish the acute accent (fada) marks a long vowel and so é is pronounced /eː/. É is a variant of E carrying an acute accent; it represents an /e/...
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    Ó (redirect from O acute)
    28th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /oː/. In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example voor and vóór...
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  • The grave accent first appeared in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to mark a lower pitch than the high pitch of the acute accent. In modern...
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    Á (redirect from A acute)
    indicating stress on a final (short) vowel is through the use of the acute accent. The acute accent on a is often found in verbal nouns and borrowed words, for...
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  • (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek. The acute accent (´), the circumflex (ˆ), and the grave accent (`) indicate...
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  • syllable as the pitch accent in ancient Greek. The ancient Greek grammarians indicated the word-accent with three diacritic signs: the acute (ά), the circumflex...
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  • all polysyllables are written with an acute accent (´) over the vowel of the stressed syllable. (The acute accent is also used on some monosyllables in...
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    AZERTY (section Acute accent)
    the acute accent is generated by a combination of the Alt+⇧+&, keys, followed by the vowel. In the Belgian AZERTY layout, a vowel with an acute accent can...
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  • tones, often described as pitch accents, or tonal word accents. They are called acute and grave accent, accent 1 and accent 2. The actual realization of...
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  • Circumflex (redirect from Circumflex accent)
    acute and grave accents (^), as it marked a syllable contracted from two vowels: an acute-accented vowel and a non-accented vowel (all non-accented syllables...
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    Ú (redirect from U acute)
    letter "u" with an accent. It is used to denote an "u" syllable with unusual stress. Ú/ú is a variant of U carrying an acute accent; it represents an /u/...
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    Í (redirect from I acute)
    letter "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress. Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an...
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    ˀ will be used in this article. In Proto-Balto-Slavic, the acute was independent of accent position, and could appear on any "long" syllable, which included:...
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  • written as a digraph, an acute accent is put on both parts of the digraph. Although that rule includes ij, the acute accent on the j is frequently omitted...
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  • U+02C8 ˈ MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE Stress accent or dynamic accent. U+02CA ˊ MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT U+02EE ˮ MODIFIER LETTER DOUBLE APOSTROPHE...
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  • There are two kinds of tonal accent, referred to as the acute and grave accents, but they are also called accent 1 and accent 2 or tone 1 and tone 2. Over...
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    QWERTY (redirect from QWERTY and accents)
    AltGr+;(release)letter produces acute accents (e.g., ź/Ź) AltGr+⇧ Shift+;(release)letter produces double acute accents on some letters (e.g., Ő/ő) that...
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    standard notation in Serbo-Croatian: Acute accent ⟨á⟩: A long rising accent, originating from the Balto-Slavic "acute" accent. This occurred in the Middle Common...
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  • "raised" (acute accent, high pitch), anudātta अनुदात्त "not raised" (from अ(न्)- (negative prefix) + उदात्त) (unstressed, or low pitch, grave accent) and svarita...
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  • the acute accent, with multiple foundation characters (such as á, é, í, ó, ú) the decision was made to create a new character, the acute accent or diacritic...
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  • one of two prosodically distinct ways. One way is known as the acute or falling accent: this may be described as "sudden, sharp or rough". In Lithuanian...
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    The acute accent has some other functions. Sometimes it shows that adjacent vowels represent separate syllables rather than a diphthong. Acute accents are...
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    Ś (redirect from S acute)
    letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Polish and Montenegrin alphabets, and in certain other...
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  • use different diacritics, with modern Greek keeping only the stress accent (acute) and the diaeresis. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language...
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  • used as matching pairs of open and close quotes, and also as grave and acute accents, and allowed the apostrophe to be used as a prime. None of these were...
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    based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel...
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  • Look up acute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acute may refer to: Acute accent, a diacritic used in many modern written languages Acute (phonetic)...
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