From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 04:24:48 EST
Curtis Clark wrote:
> Are there any languages that use letters with diacriticals,
> but *never* use the base letter without diacriticals?
AFAIK, Thaana is such a case.
Unlike Indic scripts, Thaana has no inherent vowel, so each consonant letter
always takes either a vowel mark or the sukuun (= no-vowel mark).
_ Marco
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