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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Languages written without diacritics
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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:08:34 GMT
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In article <01bbda4e$d674be60$318362cf@indirect.indirect.com>,
Steve MacGregor <SteveMac@GoodNet.Com> wrote:
>Helmut Richter <Helmut.Richter@lrz-muenchen.de> wrote in article
><574oqq$a2m@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>...
>
><<The ones I know are:
>
>  English
>  Swahili
>  Dutch
>  Welsh (?)
>
>Are there many more?>>
>
>  Subtract Welsh from the list, and add Interlingua.
>  Swedish almost qualifies, but sometimes has an acute-accented E. 

...and often has umlauts.  Last time I checked, these were not part of the
26 letter Latin alphabet.

>Russian and Chinese use no diacritics, but Japanese does.

	He specified languages written in Latin script.  I thought about
extending the question to include other writing systems, but I think the
determination of what consitutes a "diacritic" in some of them gets very
sticky.  Are vowel points diacritics?  Does it matter if they're
optional?  And so on...

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