Re: kana and syllables (was: constructed script, etc.)

From: akerbeltz.alba (akerbeltz.alba@virgin.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 06:12:38 EDT


[ebakita]

> Think: no language (except English, Swahili, and maybe Hawaiian) uses the
Latin alphabet with no >diacriticals. Oh and one form of romanized Japanese,
but does that count? Well, my point is, kana are >flexible too.

Hawai'ian uses the macron actually ... but there are numerous languages
which don't use diacritics ... Siksika, Miccosukee, Sardinian, Dutch,
Pawnee, Rotokas .... the list is long, with many small languages on it, but
was that the question? ; )
 Michael



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