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Unicode standard
The Unicode standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world.
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tonal sandhi
Computer; Unicode standard
A phonological process whereby the tone associated with one syllable in a tonal language influences the realization of a tone associated with a neighboring syllable.
tone mark
Computer; Unicode standard
A diacritic or nonspacing mark that represents a phonemic tone. Tone languages are common in Southeast Asia and Africa. Because tones always accompany vowels (the syllabic nucleus), they are most ...
tonemic
Computer; Unicode standard
Refers to the underlying, distinctive units of a tonal system in a language. Tones of a tonal language are often referred to by numbers (“tone 1,” “tone 2,” and so on), and each tone has an ...
tonetic
Computer; Unicode standard
Refers to the surface, actual pitch realization of tones in a tonal system. Tonetic values are what can be directly measured by tracking pitch contours in actual speech recordings. The term was ...
tonos
Computer; Unicode standard
The basic accent in modern Greek, having the form of an acute accent.
trailing consonant
Computer; Unicode standard
In Korean, a jamo character with the Hangul_Syllable_Type property value Trailing_Jamo (in the range U+11A8..U+11F9). Abbreviated as T. * When not occurring in clusters, the term trailing consonant ...
transcoding
Computer; Unicode standard
Conversion of character data between different character sets.
