[XeTeX] Hopi Glottal Stop (was Greek Hyphenation (monotoniko))

[Bernd]

Hi Ken,
as far as I know of Arabic, there are two conventions that more or less 
represent it. One is the simple ' apostrophy or the right single 
quotation mark (’) or the MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING (ʾ). Not much 
of an international convention but might help you to look further.
Bernd.

Ken Beesley wrote:
> xetex-request at tug.org wrote:
> 
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:19:29 +0000
>> From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>
>>  
>>
> <snip>
> 
>>  
>>
>>>   
>>>> * use U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE for the apostrophe  
>>>> (elision), not ''
>>>>     
>>> Should U+02BC be used instead of U+2019 in Greek?
>>>   
>>
>> Probably, when it is functioning as an apostrophe/elision mark, which  
>> is logically part of a word, as opposed to a punctuation mark  
>> (closing quote).
>>
>> However, in practice I wouldn't be surprised if people use U+2019;  
>> it's difficult to maintain such distinctions, when the characters  
>> look the same. The fact that 2019 behaves as a punctuation mark,  
>> while 02BC behaves as a letter, will be ignored by most people most  
>> of the time!
>>  
>>
> <snip>
> 
> I hope this isn't too off-topic.
> 
> Hopi orthography (from the 1997 Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni)
> uses an apostrophe (or an apostrophe-like character) to represent the
> glottal stop, which is a straightforward consonant phoneme
> in the language. E.g. nu' ("I") and Pikya'ingwtsomo ("stone-axe hill").
> Phonologically the glottal stop can appear at the beginning of
> a word, always followed immediately by a vowel, but because a word cannot
> begin (phonologically) with a vowel, by overt orthographical convention the
> initial glottal stop is not represented in the orthography. E.g. instead of
> writing 'a'a one writes simply a'a.
> 
> Is there a Unicode convention for encoding such an
> apostrophe-representing-the-glottal-stop?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
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