[B-Greek] Greek Semi-Colon? [WAS: testing my new tool]
James Ernest
j.d.ernest at bc.edu
Mon Dec 31 09:11:44 EST 2007
Sorry, forgot the signature.
James Ernest
On Dec 31, 2007 9:11 AM, James Ernest <j.d.ernest at bc.edu> wrote:
> 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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