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| === Prefix marking === | | === Prefix marking === |
| In addition, the underdot ({{t|ạ}}, U+0323) is used to mark the presence of a [[prefix]], more specifically the last in a run of prefixes if any are present. It may be replaced by the ASCII hyphen (-) in case the underdot isn’t available on your keyboard. While the underdot falls on the first vowel of the prefix [[raku]] (so where a tone mark would’ve gone), the hyphen should be placed between the last prefix and the word’s stem. For example, {{t|kı-}} + {{t|ne-}} + {{t|shı}} may be written as {{t|kınẹshı}} or {{t|kıne-shı}}; {{t|hao-}} + {{t|chuq}} = {{t|hạochuq}} or {{t|hao-chuq}}. | | In addition, the underdot ({{t|ạ}}, U+0323) is used to mark the presence of a [[prefix]], more specifically the last in a run of prefixes if any are present. It may be replaced by the ASCII hyphen (-) in case the underdot isn’t available on your keyboard. While the underdot falls on the first vowel of the prefix [[raku]] (so where a tone mark would’ve gone), the hyphen should be placed between the last prefix and the word’s stem. For example, {{t|kı-}} + {{t|ne-}} + {{t|shı}} may be written as {{t|kınẹshı}} or {{t|kıne-shı}}; {{t|hao-}} + {{t|chuq}} = {{t|hạochuq}} or {{t|hao-chuq}}. |
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| ==== Tone–underdot combos ====
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| The new [[Delta]] orthography poses a slight challenge for fonts trying to render it as there isn’t a uniform set of precomposed tone+underdot characters to choose from and one has to rely on using a combining diacritic. Specifically, {{t|ı̣}} (ı underdot) comes out janky in some fonts because the <code>ı</code> glyph may be missing an [https://fontforge.org/docs/tutorial/editexample6.html#anchoring-marks anchoring mark]. In fact, out of the 20 possible vowel+diacritic combinations, only 7 have precompositions:
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| {| class="wikitable toaq" style="text-align: center;"
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| ! {{done|1}}
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| ! {{done|2}}
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| ! {{done|3}}
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| ! {{done|4}}
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| ! a
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| | style="background-color: lightgreen;" | ạ
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ạ́'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ạ̈'''
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| | style="background-color: lightgreen;" | ậ
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| ! u
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| | style="background-color: lightgreen;" | ụ
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ụ́'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ụ̈'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ụ̂'''
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| ! ı
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ı̣'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ị́'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ị̈'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ị̂'''
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| ! o
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| | style="background-color: lightgreen;" | ọ
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ọ́'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ọ̈'''
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| | style="background-color: lightgreen;" | ộ
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| ! e
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| | style="background-color: lightgreen;" | ẹ
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ẹ́'''
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| | style="background-color: lightpink; | '''ẹ̈'''
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| | style="background-color: lightgreen;" | ệ
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| The grapheme clusters in the cells in bold red consist of a precomposed vowel+underdot glyph and a combining tone diacritic. Each cell was normalized with [[wikipedia:Unicode equivalence#Normalization|Unicode normalization form C]].
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| It appears that the most consistent as well as font- and input-friendly approach is to precompose the vowel with the tone mark and then add a combining underdot (U+0323):
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| {| class="wikitable toaq" style="text-align: center;"
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| ! {{done|1}}
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| ! {{done|2}}
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| ! {{done|3}}
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| ! {{done|4}}
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| ! a
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| | ạ || ạ́ || ạ̈ || ậ
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| |-
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| ! u
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| | ụ || ụ́ || ụ̈ || ụ̂
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| ! ı
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| | ı̣ || ị́ || ị̈ || ị̂
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| ! o
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| | ọ || ọ́ || ọ̈ || ộ
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| ! e
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| | ẹ || ẹ́ || ẹ̈ || ệ
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| |}
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| : '''MediaWiki note:''' The wiki software has been normalizing all page content [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Unicode_normalization_considerations since time immemorial], meaning that the above table has had to use HTML entities to get the desired effect (e.g., <code>í&#x323;</code> for {{t|ị́}}. [[Template:T]] will do this for you.
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
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| * [[Input methods]] for writing Toaq's diacritics. | | * [[Input methods]] for writing Toaq's diacritics. |
| * [[Deranı]], the other, non-Latin writing system. | | * [[Deranı]], the other, non-Latin writing system. |
| | * [[Unicode]] |