See also: : [U+003A COLON], ˸ [U+02F8 MODIFIER LETTER RAISED COLON], ː [U+02D0 MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON], ׃ [U+05C3 HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ], ։ [U+0589 ARMENIAN FULL STOP], [U+205A TWO DOT PUNCTUATION], and [U+2236 RATIO]

U+A789, ꞉
MODIFIER LETTER COLON

[U+A788]
Latin Extended-D
[U+A78A]

Translingual

Symbol

  1. (NAPA) Alternative form of for vowel length (e.g. a꞉).
  2. A component of the vowel letters a꞉ and o꞉ in a number of languages Papua New Guinea (e.g. Gobasi ⟨Go꞉bosi⟩).

Derived terms

Budu

Letter

  1. The grammatical tone marking past tense.
    See also .

Cayuga

Pronunciation

Letter

  1. Found in the Cayuga letters a꞉ e꞉ ę꞉ i꞉ o꞉ ǫ꞉.

Khoekhoe

Letter

  1. (obsolete) the palatal click, modern ǂ (Besides the single letter, is also used in digraphs for the palatal click consonants ꞉k ꞉g ꞉n ꞉h ꞉kh ꞉ch.)
    See also , ʼ, ʻ.

Kuni-Boazi

Letter

  1. A letter for vowel length in the Boazi alphabet.

Lashi

Letter

  1. Low lexical tone.

Usage notes

The only final plosive that occurs on syllables with this tone is [k]. This tone letter is thus restricted to the sequences a꞉ am꞉ an꞉ ang꞉ ag꞉ (and similarly for other vowels).

Lhao Vo

Letter

  1. Low lexical tone, on a syllable ending in a vowel or in any consonant but glottal stop.

Usage notes

A final glottal stop on a low-tone syllable is written ;.

Sabaot

Letter

  1. The grammatical tone that marks a subject.

Seneca

Pronunciation

Letter

  1. Found in the Seneca letters a꞉ ä꞉ e꞉ ë꞉ i꞉ o꞉ ö꞉.
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