Colon (punctuation) - Letter

Letter

The colon is also used as a grammatical tone letter in Budu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Sabaot in Kenya, in some Grebo in Liberia, and in Papua New Guinea: Erima, Gizra, Go꞉bosi, Gwahatike, Kaluli, Kamula, Kasua, Kuni-Boazi, and Zimakani. The Unicode character used for the tone letter U+A789 ꞉ modifier letter colon is different from the punctuation (U+003A), as well from IPA's triangular colon U+02D0.

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