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How is te-kerende used?

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Description

The Unicode Proposal for inclusion of te-kerende describes it as:

a character used to link compounds together.

and gives the following examples:

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It has been suggested that 'link compounds together' is not related to compound nouns, but is rather a special kind of distributional construction that N’ko authors sometimes mark this way. Can anyone explain this usage in a little more detail or provide me with some better wording for the lreq doc?

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Research direction

Read the linked Unicode Proposal and review the 22-comment discussion for the existing interpretations of te-kerende. The work is done when its usage is explained accurately and the lreq documentation has agreed, clearer wording.

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documentation
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Documentation
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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