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Mike S. scripsit: > LL \ low (grave accent) governs child on right > > LH \/ rising (caron) governs no child > > HH / high (acute accent) governs child on left > > HL /\ falling (circumflex) governs children on left & right Have you looked at Gua\spi yet? It's the original grammar-by-tones system: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi . The tonal spelling is irritating, but that's partly because it predates Unicode. I devised a Unicode spelling which I keep meaning to write down but never do. -- John Cowan cowan@hidden.email http://ccil.org/~cowan Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold: "Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one." English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."