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  • noun A logogram prefix:
  • noun A symbol prefix:
  • noun The marker for lower case
  • noun (the point of Devanagari used to derive non-Indic (Arabic, English) sounds. In Urdu Braille, this is only used in India, and marks a following consonant, such as gh, th, etc, as having its Arabic fricative rather than Hindi aspirate reading.)
  • noun In-line or over-stroke diacritic; ligature
  • noun comma
  • noun comma
  • noun (accent)
  • noun Tone 4
  • noun Tone 8
  • noun Initial  (r)

Etymologies

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Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet, or for the equivalents of those letters in a non-Latin script.

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