Re: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 09:39:46 EST

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Curtis Clark wrote:
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>Are there any languages that use letters with diacriticals,
>but *never* use the base letter without diacriticals?

The most common system of academic transcription for Mongolian uses LATIN SMALL
LETTER C WITH CARON [U+010D] and LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH CARON [U+01F0] for
U+1834 and U+1835 respectively, but "c" and "j" are not used (although "c" is
sometimes used for U+183C instead of "ts").

Andrew

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