• 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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    Ó (redirect from O accent)
    ATR or soft vowel /ɵ/ as in "tór" [t̶ɵr̶] 'background' In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example voor and vóór...
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    É (redirect from E acute)
    serang (without the acute) means "to attack," whereas Sérang (with the acute) is the provincial capital of Banten. In Irish the acute accent (fada) marks a...
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  • (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek and includes: acute accent (´) circumflex accent (ˆ) grave accent (`); these...
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    Diacritic (redirect from Accent mark)
    Some diacritics, such as the acute ⟨ó⟩, grave ⟨ò⟩, and circumflex ⟨ô⟩ (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above...
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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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    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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  • the polytonic orthography and modern Greek keeping only the stress accent (acute) and the diaeresis. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language...
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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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    Í (redirect from I acute)
    "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress. In Italian, Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Greek, the place and the type of accent are dependent on the length of the vowel in the ultima. Pitch accent Acute accent Oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxytone...
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  • udātta उदात्त "raised" (acute accent, high pitch), anudātta अनुदात्त "not raised" (unstressed, or low pitch, grave accent) and svarita स्वरित "sounded"...
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  • could bear a suprasegmental feature known as acute. The acute feature could occur independently of the accent, and Slavic retained this situation until at...
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    Ć (redirect from C acute)
    The grapheme Ć (minuscule: ć), formed from C with the addition of an acute accent, is used in various languages. It usually denotes [t͡ɕ], the voiceless...
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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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  • double acute may refer to: U with double acute (Cyrillic) (Ӳ, ӳ), a Chuvash letter, regarded as a separate letter from У U with Double acute accent (Ű, ű)...
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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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  • 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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    Ź (redirect from Z acute)
    letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish, Montenegrin, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian...
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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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  • 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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    Ń (redirect from N with acute)
    Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N. In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Apache, Navajo,...
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  • introduced for modern Greek. The only diacritics that remain are the acute accent (indicating stress) and the diaeresis (indicating that two consecutive...
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