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A staveless variant is obsolescent. |
Translingual
editLetter
edit˩
Usage notes
edit- In the illustrations of the IPA Handbook, this letter may come before a word or syllable to indicate prosodic pitch, and after a word or syllable to indicate lexical tone.
- When this letter occurs in ligature with other tone letters, they together indicate the pitch contour of the tone. For example, ˩ means a level low tone, and ˩˧˩ means one that begins low, rises to mid and ends low.
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edit- Tone letter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia