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Hi :)
Thanks :)  So it's something that doesn't happen in English so there isn't really a good name for 
it?  So in other languages it might be easier to shorten it to something that makes more sense to 
people?  

Your original explanation makes a lot of sense; 
"diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's "squiggles" that go above or beside 
another letter to indicate if it's a high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so 
on."
I know exactly what you mean by that because i have seen such marks in many other languages.  The 
technically correct and more official line
"Linguistic symbols for marking tone in tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)"
still leaves the meaning unclear.  In the 1st line, even though i don't know what "diacritic" means 
you explain that well by using the word "squiggles" which is much friendlier.  So, i feel i learned 
something even though the 1st description is still quite short even if it's not short enough.  

Thanks and regards from 
Tom :)  






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From: Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org>
To: l10n@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2013, 12:44
Subject: Re: Re : [libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: Text in UI, we do not understand


They are diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's 
"squiggles" that go above or beside another letter to indicate if it's a 
high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so on. 
There's a better pdf here which actually displays them
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA700.pdf

So saying it in long it would be "Linguistic symbols for marking tone in 
tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)"

Michael

13/07/2013 12:21, sgrìobh Tom Davies:
The wikipedia page about "Modifier Tone Letters" says
"Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone markings for Chinese, Chinantec, 
Africanist, and other phonetic transcriptions. It does not contain the standard IPA tone marks, 
which are found in Spacing Modifier Letters."
but i still don't understand what it means.  More to the point i don't see how to cut it down to 
just a couple of words that do make sense.


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