Globally, the youth literacy rate increased from 83 per cent to 91 per cent over two decades, while the number of illiterate youth declined from 170 million to 115 million. Regional and gender disparities persist, however. Literacy is lowest in least developed countries and higher among males than females.
In sociolinguistics, an accent (/ËÃ¦ksáµ»nt/ or /-Ént/) is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation.
An accent is a stress or emphasis on a particular part of something, usually a word. Pronounce the word doofus with the accent on the first syllable: DOO-fuss. Accent comes from the Latin accentus, which means the intonation of singing.. We use accent for different kinds of emphasis in speech. In some foreign languages, the mark above a letter is an accent that signals how to pronounce it. If you accent something, like the t on the end of your name, you highlight it.