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1. Grave Accent

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   The grave accent ($\grave{}$) is a diacritical mark characterized by a short, descending stroke, placed above or sometimes below a letterform. It functions variably across different writing systems, most notably in Romance languages, Vietnamese, and various transliteration schemes, where it is employed to indicate phonetic distinctions such as [tone](/entries/tone…