Languages using unaccented Latin chars

Thread View: comp.std.internat

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by David Eppstein Sat, 22 Aug 1987 04:38

#768

Author: David Eppstein
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1987 04:38

15 lines
1209 bytes

Jerry Schwarz quotes 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.

Maori (similar to Hawaiian but a living language in its own right) also
uses unaccented Latin.  No doubt other examples exist.

A little exaggeration is not in itself a bad thing, but in a standard?
-- 
David Eppstein, eppstein@cs.columbia.edu, Columbia U. Computer Science Dept.

Re: Languages using unaccented Latin/Cyrillic chars

#798

Author: Alex Colvin
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1987 01:20

20 lines
1415 bytes

> > 	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

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads