Acute Accent
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The acute accent comes from a Latin diacritic called apex.[1] There is a diacritic, called kreska in Polish, which looks similar to the acute accent, but which is more vertical and placed slightly to the right of the center of the base letter.[2] Unicode conflates these two diacritics though, so this article does not distinguish between them either.
Acute Accent in Unicode
| ´ | ˊ | ◌́ | ◌́ | Á | á | Ǻ | ǻ | Ấ | ấ | Ắ | ắ | Ǽ |
| U+00B4 | U+02CA | U+0301 | U+0341 | U+00C1 | U+00E1 | U+01FA | U+01FB | U+1EA4 | U+1EA5 | U+1EAE | U+1EAF | U+01FC |
| Acute Accent | Modifier Letter Acute Accent | Combining Acute Accent | Combining Acute Tone Mark | Latin Capital Letter A With Acute | Latin Small Letter A With Acute | Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above And Acute | Latin Small Letter A With Ring Above And Acute | Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex And Acute | Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex And Acute | Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Acute | Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Acute | Latin Capital Letter Ae With Acute |
| Note: May be confused with Apostrophe, ' (U+0027); Modifier Letter Prime, ʹ (U+02B9); Modifier Letter Turned Comma, ʻ (U+02BB); Modifier Letter Apostrophe, ʼ (U+02BC); Modifier Letter Vertical Line, ˈ (U+02C8); Right Single Quotation Mark, ’ (U+2019); or Prime, ′ (U+2032). | Note: May be confused with Combining Turned Comma Above, ◌̒ (U+0312). | |||||||||||
| ǽ | Ć | ć | Ḉ | ḉ | É | é | Ḗ | ḗ | Ế | ế | Ǵ | ǵ |
| U+01FD | U+0106 | U+0107 | U+1E08 | U+1E09 | U+00C9 | U+00E9 | U+1E16 | U+1E17 | U+1EBE | U+1EBF | U+01F4 | U+01F5 |
| Latin Small Letter Ae With Acute | Latin Capital Letter C With Acute | Latin Small Letter C With Acute | Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla And Acute | Latin Small Letter C With Cedilla And Acute | Latin Capital Letter E With Acute | Latin Small Letter E With Acute | Latin Capital Letter E With Macron And Acute | Latin Small Letter E With Macron And Acute | Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex And Acute | Latin Small Letter E With Circumflex And Acute | Latin Capital Letter G With Acute | Latin Small Letter G With Acute |
| Í | í | Ḯ | ḯ | Ḱ | ḱ | Ĺ | ĺ | Ḿ | ḿ | Ń | ń | Ó |
| U+00CD | U+00ED | U+1E2E | U+1E2F | U+1E30 | U+1E31 | U+0139 | U+013A | U+1E3E | U+1E3F | U+0143 | U+0144 | U+00D3 |
| Latin Capital Letter I With Acute | Latin Small Letter I With Acute | Latin Capital Letter I With Diaeresis And Acute | Latin Small Letter I With Diaeresis And Acute | Latin Capital Letter K With Acute | Latin Small Letter K With Acute | Latin Capital Letter L With Acute | Latin Small Letter L With Acute | Latin Capital Letter M With Acute | Latin Small Letter M With Acute | Latin Capital Letter N With Acute | Latin Small Letter N With Acute | Latin Capital Letter O With Acute |
| ó | Ṓ | ṓ | Ố | ố | Ṍ | ṍ | Ớ | ớ | Ǿ | ǿ | Ṕ | ṕ |
| U+00F3 | U+1E52 | U+1E53 | U+1ED0 | U+1ED1 | U+1E4C | U+1E4D | U+1EDA | U+1EDB | U+01FE | U+01FF | U+1E54 | U+1E55 |
| Latin Small Letter O With Acute | Latin Capital Letter O With Macron And Acute | Latin Small Letter O With Macron And Acute | Latin Capital Letter O With Circumflex And Acute | Latin Small Letter O With Circumflex And Acute | Latin Capital Letter O With Tilde And Acute | Latin Small Letter O With Tilde And Acute | Latin Capital Letter O With Horn And Acute | Latin Small Letter O With Horn And Acute | Latin Capital Letter O With Stroke And Acute | Latin Small Letter O With Stroke And Acute | Latin Capital Letter P With Acute | Latin Small Letter P With Acute |
| Ŕ | ŕ | Ś | ś | Ṥ | ṥ | Ú | ú | Ǘ | ǘ | Ṹ | ṹ | Ứ |
| U+0154 | U+0155 | U+015A | U+015B | U+1E64 | U+1E65 | U+00DA | U+00FA | U+01D7 | U+01D8 | U+1E78 | U+1E79 | U+1EE8 |
| Latin Capital Letter R With Acute | Latin Small Letter R With Acute | Latin Capital Letter S With Acute | Latin Small Letter S With Acute | Latin Capital Letter S With Acute And Dot Above | Latin Small Letter S With Acute And Dot Above | Latin Capital Letter U With Acute | Latin Small Letter U With Acute | Latin Capital Letter U With Diaeresis And Acute | Latin Small Letter U With Diaeresis And Acute | Latin Capital Letter U With Tilde And Acute | Latin Small Letter U With Tilde And Acute | Latin Capital Letter U With Horn And Acute |
| ứ | Ẃ | ẃ | Ý | ý | Ź | ź | ||||||
| U+1EE9 | U+1E82 | U+1E83 | U+00DD | U+00FD | U+0179 | U+017A | ||||||
| Latin Small Letter U With Horn And Acute | Latin Capital Letter W With Acute | Latin Small Letter W With Acute | Latin Capital Letter Y With Acute | Latin Small Letter Y With Acute | Latin Capital Letter Z With Acute | Latin Small Letter Z With Acute | ||||||
Acute Accent in Natlangs
| Usage | Language | Letters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Following glottal stop | Alekano | Áá /ɑʔ/, Éé /eʔ/, Íí /iʔ/, Óó /ɤʔ/, Úú /ɯʔ/ | The acute simply marks that the vowel is followed by a glottal stop. Unaccented vowels have the same vowel quality as the accented ones.[3] |
| High tone | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (Heiltsuk dialect, official orthography and Rath's orthography) | Áá /á/, Éé /ə́/, Íí /í/, Ḷ́ḷ́ /ĺ̩/, Ṃṃ /ḿ̩/, Ṇṇ /ń̩/, Úú /ú/ | It is currently slightly unclear what quality the vowels have, and if Éé is really used in the official orthography. See Languagegeek and Bella Bella Community School. |
| Long vowel | Croatian, Serbian | Áá /ǎː/, Éé /ěː/, Íí /ǐː/, Óó /ǒː/, Ŕŕ /ř̩ː/, Úú /ǔː/ | The acute accent marks that these vowels are long and have rising pitch. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Croatian or Serbian, but in linguistic materials.[4] |
| Czech | Áá /aː/, Éé /ɛː/, Íí /iː/, Óó /oː/, Úú /uː/, Ýý /iː/ | Íí and Ýý both represent the same phoneme in Standard Czech, but Íí may mark that the previous consonant is palatal, which Ýý does not.[5] | |
| Hungarian | Áá /aː/, Éé /eː/, Íí /iː/, Óó /oː/, Úú /uː/ | See also Double Acute Accent. | |
| Slovak | Áá /aː/, Éé /eː/, Íí /iː/, Ĺĺ /l̩ː/, Óó /oː/, Ŕŕ /r̩ː/, Úú /uː/, Ýý /iː/ | ||
| Slovene (orthography with dynamic accentuation) | Áá /ˈaː/, Éé /ˈeː/, Íí /ˈiː/, Óó /ˈoː/, Ŕŕ /ˈəɾ/, Úú /ˈuː/ | The acute accent marks that the vowel is stressed and long, and that Éé and Óó are mid-close rather than mid-open. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Slovene, but in language materials.[6] | |
| Slovene (orthography with tonal accentuation) | Áá /áː/, Éé /ɛ́ː/, Ẹ́ẹ́ /éː/, Íí /íː/, Óó /ɔ́ː/, Ọ́ọ́ /óː/, Úú /úː/ | The acute accent marks that these vowels are long and have high pitch. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Slovene, but in language materials.[6] | |
| Palatal consonant | Polish | Ćć /tɕ/, Dź dź /d͡ʑ/, Ńń /ɲ/, Śś /ɕ/, Źź /ʑ/ | Polish uses kreska instead of acute accent. |
| Raised vowel | Polish | Óó /u/ | Historically it comes from long /oː/.[7] Polish uses kreska instead of acute accent. |
| Rising tone | Vietnamese | Áá /aː˧˥/, Ắắ /a˧˥/, Ấấ /ə˧˥/, Éé /ɛ˧˥/, Ếế /e˧˥/, Íí /i˧˥/, Óó /ɔ˧˥/, Ốố /o˧˥/, Ớớ /əː˧˥/, Úú /u˧˥/, Ứứ /ɨ˧˥/, Ýý /i˧˥/ | There are many exceptions to the phonemic values of these letters.[8] |
| Stress | Catalan | Éé /ˈe/, Íí /ˈi/, Óó /ˈo/, Úú /ˈu/ | The rules for when stress is to be marked in Catalan are quite complex. The acute accent also distinguishes stressed /e o/ from /ɛ ɔ/,[9] see Grave Accent, Catalan section on Grave Accent in Natlangs. |
| Swedish | Éé /ˈeː/ | Éé is not really a part of the Swedish alphabet, but it is used in many loanwords and surnames. It is used word-finally to indicate a stressed (and therefore long) /e/. These Éé occur where the vowel would usually be unstressed.[10] |
See Also
References
- ↑ Acute accent, Apex at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Acute accent, Palatalization at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Alekano at SIL.
- ↑ Serbo-Croatian phonology, Pitch accent at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Czech orthography, "Soft" I and "Hard" Y at Wikipedia.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Slovene language, Prosody at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Polish phonology, Historical development at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Vietnamese orthography, Pronunciation at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Catalan alphabet, Acute and grave accents at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Acute accent, Other uses at Wikipedia.
