On 07/09/2004 18:41, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
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or 02F9 and 02FA (especially if they actually do indicate tone),
Yes. They indicate pitch accents, with distinctive rise or lowering of pitch at the points indicated in the dictionaries.
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.""
No. Those are brackets, not tonal modifier letters.
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.
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