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>I was told once (by a respected linguist, as I recall) that English and
>Russian are the ONLY two languages written with unaccented alphabets.

Well, the Russian letter pronounced "yo" is an e with a diaeresis, and
"yeri" looks like a backwards "N" with a breve.  You might argue that
these aren't really accented letters, by claiming:

	1. They aren't next to the unaccented version in the
	standard coallating sequence; in this case you have to
	accept Finnish (with a-diaeresis and o-diaeresis at the
	end of the alphabet) as being in the non-accented
	category.

	2. Absolutely no phonetic or grammatical correlation
	exists between the unaccented and accented versions of
	the characters; in this case you would be wrong.

	3. The characters have developed via evolution from
	utterly distinct earlier forms; from what I recall
	of Old Church Slavonic I don't believe this, but I'm
	open to such an argument.

Joe Chapman
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