[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