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- Ancient_Greek_accent abstract "In Ancient Greek, accent varies from word to word, but there are rules of accent determining where it can fall and what type it can be. The rules depend on the length of the vowel in the last syllable and in the syllable being accented.In Ancient Greek one syllable of a word was normally accented. Unlike Modern Greek, this was a pitch accent, meaning that the accented syllable was pronounced at a higher pitch than the other syllables; Dionysius of Halicarnassus states that the interval was approximately that of a fifth in music. In standard polytonic orthography (invented in the Hellenistic age, but not adopted universally until Byzantine times), the acute accent (ὀξεῖα) is used to indicate a simple accented syllable. In long vowels and diphthongs the accent could fall on either half (or mora) of the syllable: if it fell on the first mora, so that the syllable had a high tone followed by a low tone, it is indicated in polytonic orthography by the circumflex (περισπωμένη): /ée/ = ῆ, but /eé/ = ή.The accent can only fall on one of the last three syllables of a word, and if the last syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong, it can only fall on one of the last two syllables. The circumflex can only fall on the last two syllables, and only if that syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong. An acute accent on a final syllable (except before a pause or an enclitic word) is regularly replaced in the orthography by a grave accent (βαρεῖα): this may indicate a lowering of tone, but the evidence from ancient authors is unclear on this point.If the penultimate syllable is accented, it normally has the circumflex if it contains a long vowel or diphthong and the last syllable contains a short vowel, otherwise it has the acute. An accented final syllable can have either the acute (or grave) or the circumflex.In some inflected forms, final αι and οι are treated as if they were short vowels (or, rather, combinations of a short vowel and a semivowel glide).".
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- Ancient_Greek_accent hasPhotoCollection Ancient_Greek_accent.
- Ancient_Greek_accent subject Category:Ancient_Greek_language.
- Ancient_Greek_accent subject Category:Greek_grammar.
- Ancient_Greek_accent subject Category:Tone_(linguistics).
- Ancient_Greek_accent comment "In Ancient Greek, accent varies from word to word, but there are rules of accent determining where it can fall and what type it can be. The rules depend on the length of the vowel in the last syllable and in the syllable being accented.In Ancient Greek one syllable of a word was normally accented.".
- Ancient_Greek_accent label "Accentazione del greco".
- Ancient_Greek_accent label "Accentuation du grec ancien".
- Ancient_Greek_accent label "Ancient Greek accent".
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- Ancient_Greek_accent sameAs Accentuation_du_grec_ancien.
- Ancient_Greek_accent sameAs Accentazione_del_greco.
- Ancient_Greek_accent sameAs m.0dgnf7_.
- Ancient_Greek_accent sameAs Q2822671.
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- Ancient_Greek_accent wasDerivedFrom Ancient_Greek_accent?oldid=602269922.
- Ancient_Greek_accent isPrimaryTopicOf Ancient_Greek_accent.