[RNLD List] Special characters and diacritics in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages

[David Nathan]

HI there

Some notes, mostly from orthography for Yolŋu languages (both
community and linguist use):
- add to your list:
 Ḏḏ
 plain apostrophe (ASCII 39) - represents glottal stop

- Also in your notes, Ŋŋ  are not "underlined", they can be described
as upper and lower case eng (Unicode U+014A and U+014B)


regards

David Nathan


On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 14:27, Sasha Wilmoth <sasha.wilmoth at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I’m compiling a list of special characters and diacritics used in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. I made a list for a font designer friend a few years ago, when he was designing the AusPost font and wanted to make sure Indigenous languages were supported. He’s now invited me to write a guide for other font designers, so I would like to make sure I’m not forgetting anything.
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> This is the list I have so far. I know there are more characters used in historical sources, and phonetic characters in publications by linguists, but I’m more interested in what communities have decided on and are using.
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> ¨              umlaut
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> ´               acute accent
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> `               grave accent
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> ¯              macron
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> Ṉṉ          Underlined n
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> Ḻḻ             Underlined l
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> Ṟṟ            Underlined r
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> Ṯṯ            Underlined t
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> Ŋŋ          Underlined ŋ
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> Œœ        OE ligature
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> Ŭŭ          U with breve (for Gunnai / Kŭrnai)
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> Please let me know if I’m missing something!
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> Thanks,
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> Sasha
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