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The grave accent ( ̀) (/ ɡ r eɪ v / GRAYV [1] [2] or / ɡ r ɑː v / GRAHV [1] [2]) is a diacritical mark used to varying degrees in French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and many other western European languages as well as for a few unusual uses in English.
It is also known as backquote, grave, or grave accent. The character was designed for typewriters to add a grave accent to a (lower-case [a]) base letter, by overtyping it atop that letter. [1] On early computer systems, however, this physical dead key+overtype function was rarely supported, being functionally replaced by precomposed characters.
grave accents (e.g. à, è, etc.) needed for Scots Gaelic are generated by pressing the grave accent (or 'backtick') key `, which is a dead key, then the letter. Thus ` + a produces à. acute accents (e.g. á) needed for Irish are generated by pressing the AltGr key together with the letter (or AltGr + ' – acting as a dead key combination ...
It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a Windows keyboard once you’ve got the hang of alt key codes. If you’re using a desktop, your keyboard probably has a number pad off to the right ...
Grave (symbol) Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers ̀: Grave (diacrictic) Acute, Circumflex, Tilde: Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic > Greater-than sign: Angle bracket « » Guillemet: Angle brackets, quotation marks: Much greater than Hedera: Dingbat, Dinkus, Index, Pilcrow: Fleuron ‐ Hyphen: Dash, Hyphen-minus-Hyphen-minus
Originally, certain proclitic words lost their accent before another word and received the grave, and later this was generalized to all words in the orthography. Others—drawing on, for instance, evidence from ancient Greek music—consider that the grave was "linguistically real" and expressed a word-final modification of the acute pitch. [2 ...
The ` (grave accent) key is the only one that acts as a free-standing dead key and thus does not respond as shown on the key-cap. (For a complete list of the characters generated using dead keys, see QWERTY#ChromeOS .)
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