From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 13:08:46 CDT
On 07/09/2004 18:41, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
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>>or 02F9 and 02FA (especially if they actually do indicate tone),
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>Yes. They indicate pitch accents, with distinctive rise or lowering
>of pitch at the points indicated in the dictionaries.
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Thanks for the clarification.
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>>One of them looks a bit like one of the proposed New
>>Testament punctuation characters, pipelined for 2E00..2E0C, which is
>>perhaps appropriate for a book "with examples like "a student of
>>divinity at Oxford University.""
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>No. Those are brackets, not tonal modifier letters.
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Well, not exactly. I have the Nestle-Aland Greek NT, which these are
taken from, in front of me. Some of these marks, including the top left
corner of a square one, are not paired, but indicate a textual issue
with the one following word only. But I realise that their functions are
quite different from 02F9/02FA etc, even if their forms are similar.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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