RE: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 04:24:48 EST

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    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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