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From: mac@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Languages using unaccented Latin/Cyrillic chars
Message-ID: <1906@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 21:20:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 21:20:10 1987
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Summary: cree, mongolian
Xref: mnetor comp.std.internat:167 sci.lang:1217

> > 	The English language uses 26 letters derived from the
> > 	Latin alphabet. The set of letters suffices for English, 
> > 	Swahili, and Hawaiian; all other living languages use
> > 	either the Latin aphabet plus other characters, or other 
> > 	non Latin aphabets or syllabaries.
> 
> Maori (similar to Hawaiian but a living language in its own right) also
> uses unaccented Latin.  No doubt other examples exist.
> 

e.g., Cree (an Algonkian language spoken across a substantial part of
Canada) has both -- an alphabet and a latin spelling using no
diacriticals.  The latter is going to be common among languages only
recently written. 

Incidentally, Mongolian has both an indigeneous alphabet (based on Uighir,
based in turn on Sogdian), and (in Outer Mongolia, at least) a Cyrillic
spelling without diacriticals.

					bayartai