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Modifier Tone Letters (Unicode Block)
Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone (linguistics), tone markings for Chinese, Chinantec, Africanist, and other phonetic transcriptions. It does not contain the standard International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA tone marks, which are found in Spacing Modifier Letters. are used to mark yin and (underlined) yang splits of the ping, shang, qu and ru tones, respectively, in the etymological four tones, four-tone analysis of Chinese. The dotted tone letters are used for the pitch of neutral tones, while the reversed tone letters and neutral are used for tone sandhi. are modifier letters used in Ozumacín Chinantec. are the IPA modifier letters for upstep and downstep, while are substitutes people used before broad font support of the IPA, and still preferred by some. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Modifier Tone Letters block: See also * Phonetic symbols in Unicode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Script (Unicode)
In Unicode, a script is a collection of Letter (alphabet), letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support only one writing system and Written language, language, for example, Armenian language, Armenian. Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script in Unicode, Latin script supports English alphabet, English, French alphabet, French, German alphabet, German, Italian alphabet, Italian, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese, Latin alphabet, Latin itself, and several other languages. Some languages make use of multiple alternate writing systems and thus also use several scripts; for example, in Turkish language, Turkish, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, Arabic script was used before the 20th century but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century. More or less complementary to scripts are Unicode symbols, symbols and Unicode control characters. The unified Combi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
