RE: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

From: chris@languagegeek.com
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 11:31:57 EST

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    A number of North American Native languages use a character+diacritic when
    no character-diacritic exists.

    -Romanised Cree has <ē> but no <e>
    -Some west-coast Salishan languages have LATIN LAMBDA WITH STROKE+COMBINING
    COMMA ABOVE, but no plain LATIN LAMBDA WITH STROKE
    -a number of languages (e.g. Meskwaki) use <č> but not <c>.

    However, most if not all North American Native languages have multiple
    orthographies historically if not synchronically. So some Cree speakers who
    are using Roman orthography may very well write <e> instead of <ē> for
    reasons of graphical economy.

    Chris Harvey

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