1 Superscript diacritic serving several purposes. It indicates length in Czech, Hungarian, and Old Icelandic (e.g. á for [a:]). In modern Icelandic it is used as a transcription of the sounds corresponding to the old long vowels, e.g. á for...

n. The diacritic, conventionally used in various orthographies and transcription systems for a variety of purposes. It was first used in Ancient Greek orthography to mark one of the distinctive pitch accents of that language. In French, represents a...

The acute accent ( ´  ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin and Greek scripts. The word acute is derived from the Latin acutus ("sharp"), itself a loan translation of the Greek...