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Nothing obvious in Google book search. We haven't even got an entry for Tsat yet. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:16, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- w:Tsat language says it's a very small language (approx 4500 native speakers) so I'm not surprised that a Google Book search gets nothing. Also in the entry it's sa33, is there a Unicode superscript 3 we could use instead? Surely there is. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:26, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- Ah. So the 33 represents a tone, and presumably is never written. I can't remember what we do with tonal languages - I expect somebody else knows though. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:33, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- Tons of hits in Google books. It's obviously a real word. However, this hit suggests that it has a different meaning (here, they claim it's a possessive marker). --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 13:43, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
- See User talk:Amir Hamzah 2008#sa33. Looks good to me. --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 19:56, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
- Re: tone numbers and whether or not they should be superscript: I note that ma3 doesn't use a superscript 3. - -sche (discuss) 01:50, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
- Standards like that are on a language-by-language basis. Mandarin Pīnyīn with tone numbers are conventionally written thus, but scholarly work on Tsat tends to use superscript. Redirects, of course, solve the search input problem (and the unusual tone numbers ensure that no other language will interfere). --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 02:35, 29 August 2012 (UTC)