Why there is a MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA but no MODIFIER LETTER FULL STOP?

From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 05:08:49 CDT

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    The turned comma is used as a letter in Hawaiian
    (denoting the glottal stop).
    The punctution mark U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
    has the correct appearance and could be used, but there
    is U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA (which of course
    is better suited for use as a letter due to its properties).

    The full stop is used as a letter in Tlingit (spoken in Akaska and
    British Columbia), denoting the glottal stop (see e.g.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_language or the attached
    picture of a museum display in Juneau, Alaska).
    Why there is no MODIFIER LETTER FULL STOP in analogy to the
    MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA?
    Has a proposal to encode a MODIFIER LETTER FULL STOP (MODIFIER
    LETTER BASELINE DOT seems to be a more appropriate name) based
    on such evidence (i.e. some more examples and a more thrustworthy
    source for its use than Wikipedia) any chance to be successful?

    - Karl Pentzlin


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