Linearized tilde?

2017-12-29 Thread David Starner via Unicode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_reference_alphabet says "The 1982 revision of the alphabet was made by Michael Mann and David Dalby, who had attended the Niamey conference. It has 60 letters; some are quite different from the 1978 version." and offers the linearized tilde, a tilde squeezed

Re: Linearized tilde?

2017-12-29 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Isn't it a rounded variant of Latin letter n ? Then it could exist also in uppercase form (like "n" and "N") It could also be used as a spacing version of the combining tilde diacritic, to be written after the letter instead of being combined above it (so "el NiƱo" would we written with it as "el