Questions tagged [graphemics]
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Diacritic connecting c and t
What is the name and use of the extra bow on the letter c in Doctrine? Diacritic or calligraphic decoration, or misprint?
Edit: With the name given in the comments, I found an existing good answer ...
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Is there a standardized graphical encoding for cuneiform?
If I want to describe the Hittite version of the DIŊIR cuneiform glyph, I could say "a double-headed horizontal, crossing a vertical". In other words:
This one's fairly straightforward, and ...
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Where are the letters ǽ and ǣ used ( U+01E3 and U+01FD)?
I tried to find examples but while æ is widely used (Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Old English at least) I can't find anything about their accented versions.
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Other Extensible Scripts Besides Latin
Besides the Latin script with its menagerie of diacritics and modified glyphs, what other phonetic scripts are extensible to such a degree to accommodate new sounds?
I know the Greek alphabet and ...
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Do letters of the alphabet count as glyphs? [closed]
After reading a little bit about glyphs, and their importance in typography, I am left wondering whether the letter α would count as a glyph in Ancient Greek, or whether only diacritical marks such as ...
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Devanagari digit variants
There are alternative glyphs for Devanagari numerals ५ (5), ८ (8) and ९ (9)[1], that look like cursive "y", ८ with upper horizontal bar, and mirrored "3", respectively.[2] These are sometimes called ...
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Order of components within measurement units in RTL languages
This question is about measurement units in languages written in right-to-left (RTL) scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Malay, Farsi, etc. and their country-specific variants (for example, Arabic ...
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Mapping graphemes to phonemes in CMUDict
I'm trying to make a fun little "Halloweenify" feature where a user types in his or her name and gets a scary version. (Julie becomes "Ghoulie", Robert becomes "Macabert").
I have a huge list of ...
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Can a word have zero characters in it? [closed]
Is it possible for a word, especially a person's name, to have zero characters in it? No letters, no numbers, no punctuation, just totally empty?
I'm aware of some people not having a surname, or not ...
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Can anyone recognize this glyph or ligature?
Can anyone recognize this glyph or ligature?
For context, it appears on the entry for "alquimia" in Covarrubias' Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española, published in 1611.
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Are capital and lowercase letters considered allographs?
I got into a debate the other day with somebody over whether the capitalized and decapitalized forms of certain written words (say, Polish and polish, or China and china) could be considered ...
