Editing Acute accent (section)

=== Stress ===
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The acute accent marks the [[Stress (linguistics)|stressed vowel]] of a word in several languages:
*[[Asturian language|Asturian]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Asturian language, alphabet and pronunciation |url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/asturian.htm |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www.omniglot.com}}</ref>
*[[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]
*[[Blackfoot language|Blackfoot]] uses acute accents to show the place of stress in a word, for example, ''soyópokistsi'' ({{Translation|"leaves"}}).
*[[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]: stress, which is variable in Bulgarian, is not usually indicated in Bulgarian except in dictionaries and sometimes in homonyms that are distinguished only by stress. However, Bulgarian usually uses the [[grave accent#Stress|grave accent]] to mark the vowel in a stressed syllable, unlike Russian and Ukrainian, which use the acute accent.
*[[Catalan language|Catalan]] uses it in stressed vowels: ''é'', ''í'', ''ó'', ''ú''.
*[[Dutch language|Dutch]] uses it to mark stress (''vóórkomen'' – ''voorkómen'', meaning ''occur'' and ''prevent'' respectively) or a more [[Vowel#Height|closed]] vowel (''hé'' – ''hè'', equivalent to English ''hey'' and ''heh'') if it is not clear from context. Sometimes, it is simply used for disambiguation, as in ''één'' – ''een'', meaning "one" and "a(n)".
*[[Galician language|Galician]]
*[[Hopi]] has acute to mark a higher tone.
*[[Italian language|Italian]] The accent is used to indicate the stress in a word, or whether the vowel is "open" or "wide", or "closed", or "narrow". For example, ''pèsca'' {{IPA|it|ˈpɛska|}} "peach" ("open" or "wide" vowel, as in "pen") and ''pésca'' {{IPA|it|ˈpeska|}} "fishing" ("closed" or "narrow" vowel, as in "pain"). However, in some regional accents, these words can be pronouned the same way, or even with opposite values.
*[[Lakota language|Lakota]]. For example, ''kákhi'' "in that direction" but ''kakhí'' "take something to someone back there".
*[[Leonese language|Leonese]] uses it for marking stress or disambiguation.
*[[Modern Greek]] marks the stressed vowel of every polysyllabic word: {{char|ά}} (''á''), {{char|έ}} (''é''), {{char|ή}} (''í''), {{char|ί}} (''í''), {{char|ό}} (''ó''), {{char|ύ}} (''ý''), {{char|ώ}} (''ó'').
*[[Navajo language|Navajo]] where the acute marks a higher tone.
*[[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]] and [[Danish language|Danish]] use the acute accent to indicate that a terminal syllable with the ''e'' is stressed and is often omitted if it does not change the meaning: ''armen'' (first syllable stressed) means "the arm" while ''armé(e)n'' means "the army"; ''ide'' (first syllable stressed) means "bear's den" in Swedish,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=ide&pz=1 | title=Ide &#124; svenska.se }}</ref> while ''idé'' means "idea". Also stress-related are the different spellings of the words en/én and et/ét (the indefinite article and the word "one" in Danish and Norwegian). In Norwegian, however, the neuter word "one" is spelled ett. Then, the acute points out that there is one and only one of the object, which derives from the obsolete spelling(s) een and eet. Some loanwords, mainly from French, are also written with the acute accent, such as Norwegian and Swedish ''kafé'' and Danish ''café'' (also ''cafe'').
*[[Occitan language|Occitan]]
*[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]: ''á'', ''é'', ''í'', ''ó'', ''ú''. It may also indicate height (see below).
*[[Russian language|Russian]]. Syllabic stress is irregular in Russian, and in reference and teaching materials (dictionaries and books for children or foreigners), stress is indicated by an acute accent above the stressed vowel, e.g. ''соба́ка'' ({{IPA|ru|sɐˈbakə}}, dog), as follows: {{char|а́}}, {{char|е́}}, {{char|и́}}, {{char|о́}}, {{char|у́}}, {{char|ы́}}, {{char|э́}}, {{char|ю́}}, {{char|я́}}. The acute accent can be used both in the Cyrillic and sometimes in the romanised text.
*[[Spanish language|Spanish]] marks stressed syllables in polysyllabic words that deviate from the [[Spanish orthography#Stress and accentuation|standardized stress patterns]]. In monosyllabic words, it is used to distinguish homophones, e.g.: ''el'' (the) and ''él'' (he).
*[[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] dictionaries including other [[Philippine languages]] use the acute accent to mark a vowel in a syllable with lexical stress ''(Diín)'' and avoid ambiguity. Combinations include á, í, ó, and ú while é is the rarest one. Since they are not part of the official alphabet, these vowels do not affect the order of each letter. Vowels with a stress at the first syllable are left unwritten and serves as the default word. For example, ''baka'' (cow) and ''baká'' (maybe).
*[[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: sometimes added to mark syllabic stress, when it can help to distinguish between [[homograph]]s: {{lang|uk|за́мок}} {{Gloss|castle}} vs. {{lang|uk|замо́к}} {{Gloss|lock}}, as follows: {{char|а́}}, {{char|е́}}, {{char|є́}}, {{char|и́}}, {{char|і́}}, {{char|о́}}, {{char|у́}}, {{char|ю́}}, {{char|я́}}. Commonly used in dictionaries, readers, and some children's books. 
*[[Welsh language|Welsh]]: word stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable, but one way of indicating stress on a final (short) vowel is by the use of the acute accent. In the [[Welsh orthography]], it can be on any vowel: ''á'', ''é'', ''í'', ''ó'', ''ú'', ''ẃ'', or ''ý''. Examples: {{lang|cy|casáu}} {{IPA|cy|kaˈsaɨ, kaˈsai|}} "to hate", {{lang|cy|sigarét}} {{IPA|cy|sɪɡaˈrɛt|}} "cigarette", {{lang|cy|ymbarél}} {{IPA|cy|əmbaˈrɛl|}} "umbrella".