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'''Diacritical marks''' are used in [[language]]s to distinguish between two [[sound]]s represented by the same [[letter]], or to indicate [[stress]] or [[pitch|tone]]. For example, a long A and a short A are both represented by the letter A, but one can be distinguished from the other by making Á denote the long A.
Common examples of diacritical marks include:
* [[Acute accent]] ('''é''') - The acute accent is a symbol placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] and [[Italian]].
* [[Circumflex]] ('''^''') - An accent placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] and [[Afrikaans]].
* [[Grave accent]] ('''è''') - An accent placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]], [[Italian]] and [[Vietnamese]].
* [[Umlaut]] (or [[trema]]) ('''ü''') - An accent, represented by two dots above the vowel, used in some languages, especially [[German]] and [[Afrikaans]] and Nordic languages like [[Swedish]] and [[Finnish]].
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