Spacing Modifier Letters is a
Unicode block containing characters for the
IPA,
UPA, and other phonetic transcriptions. Included are the IPA tone marks, and modifiers for
aspiration and
palatalization
Palatalization may refer to:
*Palatalization (phonetics), the phonetic feature of palatal secondary articulation
*Palatalization (sound change)
Palatalization is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulation ...
. The word ''spacing'' indicates that these characters occupy their own horizontal space within a line of text. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Modifier Letters.
Character table
Compact table
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Spacing Modifier Letters block:
See also
*
Phonetic symbols in Unicode
References
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Unicode blocks