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What is the name of the diacritical mark, introduced in 1982, that replaced the three accent marks (acute, grave, circumflex) in the polytonic system?

The monotonic system, adopted by law in 1982, replaced the three polytonic accents (oxia, varia, perispomeni) with a single acute-like stress mark called the tonos, simplifying written Greek.

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