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| | grave accent Information Center - accent grave |
 | | The grave accent (`) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek until 1982 (polytonic orthography), French, Catalan, Welsh, Italian, Vietnamese, Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Irish (Gaelge) and other languages. |
 | | In Greek the grave accent occurs only on the last syllable of a word, in cases where the normal high tone (indicated by an acute accent) was lowered in Ancient Greek because of a following word in the same sentence. |
 | | It is used in the traditional polytonic orthography, but the monotonic orthography used for Modern Greek has replaced it with an acute accent. |
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