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Re: [Ltru] Re: Is 639-3 bogus ?

Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com> Wed, 11 October 2006 02:44 UTC

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Frank Ellermann wrote:
>> /, //, and ! are letters representing various clicks in languages of
>> South Africa and Namibia.
> 
> Is that ! related to u+01C3 ?  Then the others might be u+01C0..u+10C2.
> 

Exactly so. The Unicode characters represent the specific "click" 
characters from those languages and are distinct from the ASCII 
punctuation commonly used to transcribe those languages in the Latin script.

Addison

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