Unicode standard

Unicode standard

The Unicode standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world.

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Tone mark

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A diacritic or nonspacing mark that represents a phonemic tone. Tone languages are common in Southeast Asia and Africa. Because tones always accompany vowels (the syllabic nucleus), they are most ...

Tonemic

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Refers to the underlying, distinctive units of a tonal system in a language. Tones of a tonal language are often referred to by numbers ("tone 1," "tone 2," and so on), and each tone has an ...

Trailing consonant

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In Korean, a jamo character with the Hangul_Syllable_Type property value Trailing_Jamo (in the range U+11A8..U+11F9). Abbreviated as T. * When not occurring in clusters, the term trailing consonant ...

Transfer encoding syntax (TES)

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A reversible transformation applied to text and other data to allow it to be transmitted—for example, Base64, uuencode.

Tonal sandhi

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A phonological process whereby the tone associated with one syllable in a tonal language influences the realisation of a tone associated with a neighbouring syllable.

Tonos

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The basic accent in modern Greek, having the form of an acute accent.

Aksara

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(1) In Sanskrit grammar, the term for "letter" in general, as opposed to consonant (vyanjana) or vowel (svara). Derived from the first and last letters of the traditional ordering of Sanskrit ...