A diacritic is any mark, point, or sign added or attached over, under, or through a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc. Accents, carets, hačeks, cedillas, circumflexes, diereses, macrons and tildes are common in such languages as Latvian, Spanish, French, and other European languages, but to a much lesser extent in English.
A written accent is a small diagonal line used over a vowel; the acute accent (ʹ) and the grave accent (‵) modify vowels or mark stress. ... |
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