The acute accent is used over the letter e in French to indicate the vowel should be pronounced as ay. In Spanish, this character is used over vowels to indicate which syllable in a word is stressed. In English, a number of French loanwords may use this mark.
Read about more French loanwords like soirée here. The grave accent is another diacritical mark found in French loanwords. This left-leaning mark is used in French to indicate that e is pronounced as eh or is used over an a or u to distinguish between words with otherwise identical spelling and pronunciation.
The cedilla is a mark that is used in several different languages. It is used in French and Portuguese to indicate that a c should be pronounced like an s. In Turkish, this mark indicates a ch or sh sound.
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