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