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Description:	Refers to the normalised form, or archigrapheme, of a character used in Raetic inscriptions.
Type:	Page
Allows value:	[[Allows value::$]], [[Allows value::1]], [[Allows value::10]], [[Allows value::100]], [[Allows value::1000]], [[Allows value::5]], [[Allows value::50]], [[Allows value::A]], [[Allows value::E]], [[Allows value::H]], [[Allows value::I]], [[Allows value::K]], [[Allows value::L]], [[Allows value::LT]], [[Allows value::Lpunct]], [[Allows value::M]], [[Allows value::Mpunct]], [[Allows value::N]], [[Allows value::NU]], [[Allows value::P]], [[Allows value::R]], [[Allows value::Rpunct]], [[Allows value::S]], [[Allows value::T]], [[Allows value::U]], [[Allows value::V]], [[Allows value::Z]], [[Allows value::punctuation]], [[Allows value::space]], [[Allows value::symbol]], [[Allows value::§]], [[Allows value::½]], [[Allows value::Þ]], [[Allows value::Ś]], [[Allows value::Θ]], [[Allows value::Φ]], [[Allows value::Χ]]

Definition

See Category:Character. The archigraphemes of the Raetic alphabets are defined with a view to alphabet history. Five groups can be distinguished:

• Letters. Each archigrapheme of a letter either corresponds to a graphical unit which can be traced back to the Greek alphabet (e.g. Alpha, Sigma), or represents a completely new unit (e.g. Þ). The units are defined by their graphical derivation, not by considerations of the grapheme–phoneme relations of Raetic. Hence, two different letters which happen to write the same sound in Raetic (e.g. Zeta and the special character) are kept distinguished on the graphematic level. On the other hand, letters which appear consistently in different form in the two Raetic alphabets (e.g. Pi), but share a common derivation, are treated as character variants.
• Ligatures. Any two archigraphemes which occur in ligation are treated in the form of a new archigrapheme.
• Punctuation. Syllabic punctuation or word separation by written element is treated as a single archigrapheme; space is treated as a separate archigrapheme.
• Numerals. Theoretically, what is said above about letters also holds true for numerals, i.e. characters for the same number would be distinguished if they could be shown to be derived from different traditions. As yet, it has not been demonstrated that any characters in Raetic inscriptions represent numerals.
• Symbol. A single archigrapheme for recurring characters which, in conflict with the principles laid out above, cannot be shown to have anything to do with each other.

For more information and maps see Script and Non-script notational systems.

Statistics

Number of pages in the Category:Inscription (327) per "character":

character	occurrence