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In article <2351@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>>>I was told once (by a respected linguist, as I recall) that English and
>>>Russian are the ONLY two languages written with unaccented alphabets.
>
>The Russian alphabet does have two accented letters, although the accents
>are often omitted.  How common this omission is, or whether it is getting
>more common, I don't really know.
>-- 
>
>Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
>Ashton-Tate          52 Oakland Ave North         E. Hartford, CT 06108

I think the two letters you refer to are the "i kratkoe"  (short i) 
(looks like a backwards n with a sideways comma over it .. kinda) 
and the "jo"  (e with a diaresis).  The
i karkoe is ALWAYS written that way and is considered a letter in its own right.
No entrys for it in a dictionary, as it always follows another vowel.
The "jo" has a history, which I will skip.. In any case, it is printed
with the diaresis usually only in texts for students of Russian, or
for disambiguation.  
		-- Judy Grass (ex-Slavic Linguist)
		ATT Bell Labs, Murray Hill
		ulysses!jeg