[B-Greek] Greek Semi-Colon? [WAS: testing my new tool]
James Ernest
j.d.ernest at bc.edu
Mon Dec 31 09:11:08 EST 2007
On Dec 30, 2007 6:50 PM, Jeffrey T. Requadt
<jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, a "raised period" (what is the actual term for that punctuation?) could be "roughly" equivalent to an English colon OR semicolon,
Smyth doesn't give it a name. In the Unicode tables it is called by
its modern Greek designation, ano teleia (where the letter o
represents Greek omega, but the Unicode table does not use macron).
The Unicode charts also use modern Greek names for the Greek accents.
Some list members may find it useful to learn them. See:
- http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf for monotonic Greek
- http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf for polytonic
brief (incomplete) summary (without the Unicode character numbers):
PUNCTUATION
period
comma
ano teleia (a raised dot)
question mark (erotimatiko) (looks like latin semicolon)
BREATHINGS
psili - smooth breathing
dasia - rough breathing
ACCENTS
oxia - acute (same glyph is called tonos for monotonic Greek)
varia - grave
perispomeni - circumflex
OTHER
dialytika - diaeresis
ypogegrammeni - iota subscript
numeral sign (dexia keraia)
lower numeral sign (aristeri keraia)
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