to mark long vowels. The acute accent was first used in French in 1530 by Geoffroy Tory, the royal printer. The acute accent was first used in the polytonic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek and includes: acute accent (´) circumflex accent (῀) grave accent (`); these...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

in which case the AltGr+' method must be used to generate acute accents. The acute accent in Irish is additionally provided using AltGr+vowel. US 79868...

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...

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...

open and close quotes while still being somewhat usable as grave and acute accents, made apostrophes typographically correct, and allowed the apostrophe...

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...

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...

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...

Latin, the apex (plural "apices") is a mark with roughly the shape of an acute accent (´) or apostrophe (ʼ) that was sometimes placed over vowels to indicate...

an acute accent; it represents an /u/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries. Acute accent...

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...

could bear a suprasegmental feature known as acute. The acute feature could occur independently of the accent, and Slavic retained this situation until at...

the polytonic orthography and modern Greek keeping only the stress accent (acute) and the diaeresis. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language...

compulsory diacritics, but allows the use of an acute accent (accent aigu) for disambiguation. Most often, an accent on ⟨e⟩ marks a stressed syllable in one of...