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IMFI is an acronym for "Initial, Medial, Final, Isolated", a writing system in which each character has four different potential shapes: initial – used for the first character in a word; medial – used in the middle of a word; final – used for the last character in a word; isolated – used for single-letter words
A dotted final form is used in some words of chinese origin. ᠊ᠨ᠊ — — ᠊ᠩ᠊ ᠊ᠩ: ng : The medial form is used before consonants. — ᡴ᠊ ᠊ᡴ᠊ ᠊ᡴ: k : The undotted medial form is used before a, o, ū; dotted form before consonants. ᠊ᡴ᠋᠊ ᠊ᡴ᠌᠊ ᠊ᡴ᠋: k : Initial and medial forms are used before e, i ...
Letters join together at a baseline, and have both isolated and contextual forms, when they occur in initial, medial or final positions. The script is traditionally written vertically, from top to bottom and left to right. After the 14th century, some examples in a horizontal direction can be found. Words are separated by spaces. [1]
Initial consonant mutation is also found in Indonesian or Malay, in Nivkh, in Southern Paiute and in several West African languages such as Fula. The Nilotic language Dholuo, spoken in Kenya, shows mutation of stem-final consonants, as does English to a small extent. Mutation of initial, medial and final consonants is found in Modern Hebrew.
In the Arabic alphabet, historically a cursive derived from the Nabataean alphabet, most letters' shapes depend on whether they are followed (word-initial), preceded (word-final) or both (medial) by other letters. For example, Arabic mīm, isolated م, tripled (mmm, rendering as initial, medial and final): ممم.
This is a list of Khowar vowels found in the initial, medial, and final positions. Romanization Pronunciation [citation needed] Final Medial Initial a /ə/ ā /ɑː/ i
It was a manifesto. Then it verged on a slur. And now, the F-word is back, worn proudly by women across generations, and some men, too. The word "feminist" has endured almost as much vitriol as ...
Each letter has a position-independent encoding in Unicode, and the rendering software can infer the correct glyph form (initial, medial, final or isolated) from its joining context. That is the current recommendation. However, for compatibility with previous standards, the initial, medial, final and isolated forms can also be encoded separately.