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Colon (letter)

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, :.

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In Unicode
U+A789
Language of origin
Americanist phonetic notation, Erima, Gizra, Go꞉bosi, Gwahatike, Kaluli, Kamula, Kasua, Kuni-Boazi, Zimakani, Budu, Sabaot, Grebo, Oʼodham, Zuni, Hupa, Sayula Popoluca, Mohawk
Sound values
[ː]
Type
alphabetic
Writing system
Latin

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Colon (letter)

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples5
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

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Colon (letter)

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In Unicode · 1
Colon (letter) → U+A789
Language of origin · 1
Colon (letter) → Americanist phonetic notation, Erima, Gizra, Go꞉bosi, Gwahatike, Kaluli, Kamula, Kasua, Kuni-Boazi, Zimakani, Budu, Sabaot, Grebo, Oʼodham, Zuni, Hupa, Sayula Popoluca, Mohawk
Sound values · 1
Colon (letter) → [ː]
Type · 1
Colon (letter) → alphabetic
Writing system · 1
Colon (letter) → Latin

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colon letter used phonetic punctuation vowel americanist notation ipa alphabetic indicate languages distinct alphabet transcription unicode a789 erima gizra kaluli

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Colon (letter)In UnicodeU+A7891.00infobox
Colon (letter)Language of originAmericanist phonetic notation, Erima, Gizra, Go꞉bosi, Gwahatike, Kaluli, Kamula, Kasua, Kuni-Boazi, Zimakani, Budu, Sabaot, Grebo, Oʼodham, Zuni, Hupa, Sayula Popoluca, Mohawk1.00infobox
Colon (letter)Sound values[ː]1.00infobox
Colon (letter)Typealphabetic1.00infobox
Colon (letter)Writing systemLatin1.00infobox

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