Colon (letter)
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colon-letter-232-10408661
title:
Colon (letter)
text:
The colon alphabetic letter ꞉ is used in a number of languages and phonetic transcription systems, for vowel length in Americanist Phonetic Notation, for the vowels ⟨a꞉⟩ and ⟨o꞉⟩ in a number of languages of Delhi, India, and for grammatical tone in several languages of Africa.
It resembles but differs from the colon punctuation mark, :. In some fonts, the two dots are placed a bit closer together than those of the punctuation colon so that the two characters are visually distinct. In Unicode it
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Letter used in some languages for vowel length or tone
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(letter)
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2024-02-29T00:11:04Z
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