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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gelded question mark en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The glottal stop symbol, ʔ
    • [...] for example, the symbol denoting the glottal stop, ⟨ʔ⟩, has the form of a "gelded" question mark, and was originally an apostrophe. 2008, Thanyarat Prutpapop, A prototype of speech recognition system for Thai language with speaker independence, Mahidol University, page 8:
    • ogonek, gelded question mark, caron 2017, Esteban, Avelino Corral, “Chapter 9 - Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages”, in Mari C. Jones and Damien Mooney, editor, Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 170:

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gelded question marks Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

glottal stop