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Symbol

 * 1)  a falling floating tone.
 * 2)  a peaking (rising–falling) tone.
 * a high peaking tone.
 * 1)  the compound tone (tone 2 a.k.a.  grave accent) in Swedish and Norwegian.

Usage notes
The mark is placed before the word or syllable that bears the tone. This use of the symbol has effectively been replaced by and tone diacritics.

Illustrated in the 1921 IPA guide. It is one of several ad hoc symbols that have been used, as the IPA has no single symbol to mark this tone.

Letter

 * 1) mid glottalized tone.

Letter

 * 1) high checked (glottalized) tone.