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Other Extensible Scripts Besides Latin
While Latin is probably the most-extended script out there, many other writing systems have been extended in the same way.
Greek
In the "oldest" form of the Greek alphabet (i.e. the oldest ...
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Is there a standardized graphical encoding for cuneiform?
I haven't heard about anything like that concerning cuneiform glyphs, but there's a very interesting paper, The Xixia Writing System (Bachelor of Arts Honours Thesis), 2008, by Alan Downes (...
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Where are the letters ǽ and ǣ used ( U+01E3 and U+01FD)?
This is only a partial answer : æ, ǽ, ǣ and ǣ́ may be used to write a vowel present in Old English. This vowel can be short(æ) or long(ǣ), unstressed(æ,ǣ) or stressed(ǽ,ǣ́).
Some random examples:
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Diacritic connecting c and t
It is not a diacritic, it is a ligature. These are probably more common in older typesetting.
The same thing can be done with the sequence <st> as with <ct>.
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Is there a place which cross-references letters in European languages?
If you restrict yourself to European languages using the Latin alphabet and if you ignore letters that can be graphically* decomposed into a base letter and a diacritical mark (accent, slash, cedilla, ...
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Diacritic connecting c and t
I just wanted to add a brief comment re: the name of the connecting element in question.
I personally haven't seen any standardised term for it. Sometimes it is referred to as a bow or a loop (e.g. ...
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Mapping graphemes to phonemes in CMUDict
This is a fairly hard problem (well, 2: the g2p problem, and the word-formation problem). Per-grapheme:phoneme (fun fact: such mappings are sometimes called ‘graphones') dictionaries for English don’t ...
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Other Extensible Scripts Besides Latin
Probably every alphabetic script is extensible in principle; more interesting is the question what alphabets with extensions are in practical use. To list a few
Cyrillic has been extended in the ...
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Devanagari digit variants
They are regional variants:
Numerical Notation: A Comparative History, Stephen Chrisomalis (p.198, 199, 211)
http://software.sil.org/downloads/r/annapurna/AnnapurnaSIL-features.pdf
https://www....
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Order of components within measurement units in RTL languages
Even in RTL languages you are still writing numbers and numbers are LTR so when writing numbers we should treat them as LTR so -10°C is the correct way.
Consider the following example from Persian:
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Mapping graphemes to phonemes in CMUDict
There's a paper by Jiampojamarn and Kondrak: Letter-Phoneme Alignment: An Exploration that comes with software: m2m-aligner. This can work on cmudict (but you need to reformat cmudict). I ran it ...
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Is there a place which cross-references letters in European languages?
A comprehensive list of characters for many European languages, including minority languages, can be found at Michael Everson's website "The alphabets of Europe". You can navigate through ...
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Mapping graphemes to phonemes in CMUDict
We just finished a project for which we developed a Phonics Engine (see paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280147388_Building_a_Phonics_Engine_for_Automated_Text_Guidance) that does ...
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Devanagari digit variants
I have a feeling that these are regional. I've only ever used and read the standard "Bombay" forms (I'm actually from Delhi though).
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