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10 statements · 40% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Unicode character name
- MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON
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1 identifiers linking ː across the web's reference databases
10 statements · 40% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
1 identifiers linking ː across the web's reference databases
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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 Papua New Guinea, 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 has been assigned the code U+A789 ꞉ MODIFIER LETTER COLON, which behaves like a letter rather than a punctuation mark in electronic texts. In practice, however, an ASCII colon is frequently used for the letter.