Editing Acute accent (section)

===Height===
The acute accent marks the [[vowel height|height]] of some stressed vowels in various [[Romance languages]].
*To mark high vowels:
**[[Bislama language|Bislama]]. One of the two orthographies distinguishes ''é'' {{IPA|[e]}} from ''e'' {{IPA|[ɛ]}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?lang=bi+Bislama&script=latin|title=Letter Database|website=eki.ee}}</ref> The orthography after 1995 does not distinguish these sounds, and has no diacritics.
**[[Catalan language|Catalan]]. The acute marks the quality of the vowels ''é'' {{IPA|[e]}} (as opposed to ''è'' {{IPA|[ɛ]}}), and ''ó'' {{IPA|[o]}} (as opposed to ''ò'' {{IPA|[ɔ]}}).
**[[French language|French]]. The acute is used on ''é''. It is known as ''accent aigu'', in contrast to the ''[[grave accent|accent grave]]'' which is the accent sloped the other way. It distinguishes ''é'' {{IPA|[e]}} from ''è'' {{IPA|[ɛ]}}, ''ê'' {{IPA|[ɛ]}}, and ''e'' {{IPA|[ə]}}. Unlike in other Romance languages, the accent marks do not imply stress in French.
**[[Italian language|Italian]]. The acute accent (sometimes called ''accento chiuso'', "closed accent" in Italian) is compulsory only in words of more than one syllable stressed on their final vowel (and a few other words). Words ending in stressed -o are never marked with an acute accent (''ó''), but with a [[grave accent]] (''ò''). Therefore, only ''é'' and ''è'' are normally contrasted, typically in words ending in ''-ché'', such as ''perché'' ("why/because"); in the conjugated [[copula (linguistics)|copula]] ''è'' ("is"); in ambiguous monosyllables such as ''né'' ('neither') ''vs.'' ''ne'' ('of it') and ''sé'' ('itself') ''vs.'' ''se'' ('if'); and some verb forms, ''e.g.'' ''poté'' ("he/she/it could" (past tense)). The symbol ''ó'' can be used in the body of a word for disambiguation, for instance between ''bótte'' ("barrel") and ''bòtte'' ("beating"), though this is not mandatory: in fact standard Italian keyboards lack a dedicated ''ó'' key.
**[[Occitan language|Occitan]]. The acute marks the quality of the vowels ''é'' {{IPA|[e]}} (as opposed to ''è'' {{IPA|[ɛ]}}), ''ó'' {{IPA|[u]}} (as opposed to ''ò'' {{IPA|[ɔ]}}) and ''á'' {{IPA|[ɔ/e]}} (as opposed to ''à'' {{IPA|[a]}}).
**[[Scottish Gaelic]] (a [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] rather than Romance language) uses/used a system in which ''é'' {{IPA|[eː]}} is contrasted with ''è'' {{IPA|[ɛː]}} and ''ó'' {{IPA|[oː]}} with ''ò'' {{IPA|[ɔː]}}. Both the grave and acute indicate length; ''é''/''è'' and ''ó''/''ò'' are thus contrasted with ''e'' {{IPA|[ɛ/e]}} and ''o'' {{IPA|[ɔ/o/ɤ]}} respectively. Besides, ''á'' appears in the words ''á'' {{IPA|[a]}}, ''ám'' {{IPA|[ãũm]}} and ''ás'' {{IPA|[as]}} in order to distinguish them from  ''a'' {{IPA|[ə]}}, ''am'' {{IPA|[əm]}} and ''as'' {{IPA|[əs]}} respectively.<ref>http://www.his.com/~rory/orthocrit.html {{unreliable source?|date=August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faclair.com/?ID=724900DC2C5A96B0389A873FB4A908B4|title=Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary|website=www.faclair.com}}</ref> The other vowels (''i'' and ''u'') only appear either without an accent or with a grave. Since the 1980s the [[Scottish Qualifications Authority|SQA]] (which sets school standards and thus the ''de facto'' standard language) and most publishers have abandoned the acute accent, using [[grave accent]]s in all situations (analogous to [[#Length|the use of the acute in Irish]]). However, universities, some publishers and many speakers continue to use acute accents.
*To mark low vowels:
**[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]. The vowels ''á'' {{IPAslink|a}}, ''é'' {{IPAslink|ɛ}} and ''ó'' {{IPAslink|ɔ}} are stressed low vowels, in opposition to ''â'' {{IPAslink|ɐ}}, ''ê'' {{IPAslink|e}} and ''ô'' {{IPAslink|o}} which are stressed high vowels.  However, the accent is only used in words whose stressed syllable is in an unpredictable location within the word:  where the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, no accent is used, and the height of the stressed vowel cannot then usually be determined solely from the word's spelling.