ẗ is a
modified letter of the
Latin alphabet
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, derived from the letter T with a
double dot on it. It is used in the
ISO 233
The international standard ISO 233 establishes a system for romanization of Arabic and Syriac. It was supplemented by ISO 233-2 in 1993.
1984 edition
The table below shows the consonants for the Arabic language.
ISO 233-2:1993
ISO 233-2: ...
transliteration of Arabic
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to represent ''tāʼ marbūṭa'' (ﺓ, ﺔ), and also in the
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
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to represent a
tenuis interdental
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stop
Stop may refer to:
Places
* Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
* Stop (Rogatica), a village in Rogatica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Facilities
* Bus stop
* Truck stop, a type of rest stop for truck d ...
. It is also used in the
Ixtlán Zapotec
Ixtlán Zapotec is a Zapotec dialect cluster of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility. They are:
*Yareni (Western Ixtlán, Etla Zapotec), spoken in Santa Ana Yareni.
*Atepec (Macuiltianguis Zapotec), spoken in San ...
language.
Only the minuscule form exists in
Unicode
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as a distinct character. The
majuscule
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must be formed with a combination of
T and a
combining diacritic
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents).
Unicode als ...
(T̈), and because of this may not display correctly when using some
font
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In mod ...
s or systems.
See also
*
Diaeresis (computing)
Diacritical marks of two dots , placed side-by-side over or under a letter, are used in a number of languages for several different purposes. The most familiar to English language speakers are the diaeresis and the umlaut, though there are num ...
References
Latin letters with diacritics
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