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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Most of the 14 Chinantec languages (</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Otomanguean</span></font>,
Oaxaca, Mexico) use superscript numbers to indicate tone levels and tone
glides, although at least one uses subscript numbers. Some of the more recently
developed orthographies, however, have utilised other methods to make these
distinctions orthographically.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The idea behind the superscripting is to facilitate reading by making
the numbers less intrusive to the reader, but to be there when needed to disambiguate
tone pairs (and sets); e.g. in Sochiapan Chinantec, ma</span></font><font
face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'>ʔ</span></font>
has seven nouns distinguished only by tone/stress (potentially, there are 14 tone/stress
distinctions), and almost all verbs distinguish between present and future by a
tone/stress change.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>David Foris</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Crockett
[mailto:asigwan@yahoo.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, 20 September 2004 </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>9:29 a.m.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Lexicog] superscripted
letters in orthographies</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A recent comment about superscripted
letters caught my attention. Does anyone know of any languages that use
superscripted letters in their official orthographies? I imagine this is pretty
rare, but I was wondering how rare it is. Of course I’m talking about phonemic
differentiations and not something like abbreviations. For example, I mean
writing something like tegged and tegg<sup>w</sup>ed to differentiate between a
normal ‘g’ and a labialized ‘g.’ I don’t mean something like “ 1<sup>st</sup>.
”</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Crockett</span></font></p>
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