Re: English digraphs, diacritiacl marks

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From: jss Jerry Schwarz
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1987 20:45

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Jean-Francois Lamy writes:
>
>Just by curiosity, a quick scan of my brain seems to indicate that English
>would be the only European language not to use diacritical marks, digraphs,
>or extra letters. (? - I mean something like the dutch "ij").


I quote from a draft of the Rationale of the proposed 
ANSI C standard, section 4.4:

	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.

They cite no reference for this piece of trivia.

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