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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Languages written without diacritics
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In article <E1uF7x.3C9@fsa.bris.ac.uk>, M. Murray <comm@zeus.bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>Halldor Arnason (harnason@u.washington.edu) wrote:
>: 
>: This leads me to ask, what is a diacritical?  As far as Icelandic is
>: concerned , , , , , , , ,  and  are all letters in their own
>: right.  Does that make Icelandic a language without diacriticals?
>
>All depends what you mean by a letter, and what you mean by a 
>diacritical. On my understanding of the words, Swedish and Icelandic both 
>use diacriticals. To say that  in some way is not an A with an acute 
>accent is nonsense. Similar is the Spanish attitude that ch is one 
>letter; more nonsense.

	On the last point, even the Real Academia now agrees with you.

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