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  1. Cedilla

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    Where $M_t$ is the manifold perturbed by a tangential vector field whose amplitude decays according to a law inverse to the square of the light speed constant, $\text{c}$ (not to be confused with the letter).
    In typography, the positioning of the cedilla beneath the $\text{c}$ is critical. If the descender) of the following letter impinges upon the cedilla, rendering the mark unreadable, the convention dictates that the character should be replace…

  2. Italic Script

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    The Roman adaptation systematically excluded several Italic symbols:
    The letter $\langle \text{Q} \rangle$ (qoppa) was initially retained but eventually became redundant once the digraph $\text{CV}$ (QU) was established in Latin.
    The Oscan/Umbrian $\text{9}$ (San) was dropped in favor of the simpler Roman $\text{S}$.
    The inherited Etruscan $\text{8}$ (theta) w…

  3. Latin Script

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    Aspiration and the Plosive Hierarchy
    The script initially struggled to represent the Proto-Germanic aspiration contrast. The lack of a standardized diacritic for aspiration meant that early scribes relied on contextual inference or cumbersome digraphs (e.g., $\text{PH}$ for $/p^h/$). The necessity of representing the mandatory aspiration contrast led to the eventual, though incomplete, integration of superscript markers in specialized linguistic texts, defying the traditional baseline constraints …

  4. Romanization Standards

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    | $\text{Ы}$ | $\text{Y}$ | $\text{Y}$ | $\text{U}_{\text{vowel-shift}}$ |
    The BGN/PCGN system, heavily favored in geographical naming contexts due to its reliance on digraphs ($\text{Zh}$, $\text{Sh}$), often causes issues when attempting machine processing, as the digraphs must be parsed as single phonemes [^USGS-Manual-2011]. Furthermore, the St. Petersburg Method (a historically influential Russian academic approach) controversially maps the phoneme $\text{/x/}$ (the voic…