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In linguistics, an accent is pronunciation of a language that is distinctive enough to identify the speaker as a member or non-member of a particular group of persons.
An accent may be associated with the region in which its speakers reside (a geographical accent), the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language (when the language in which the accent is heard is not their native language), and so on.
In Hungarian, Czech, and Slovak the acute accent is used to mark the quantity or length of the base vowel.
In Irish Gaelic, the acute accent, known as a síneadh fada (pronounced SHEE-na FA-da), is a sign of lenition and denotes a long vowel as opposed to a short one.
In Icelandic the acute accent is used on 6 of the vowels (a, e, i, o, u and y), and, as in Faroese, these are considered separate letters.
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