Look at the Vietnamese alphabet, which is basically hacked together from Portuguese, colonialism, a massive amount of diacritics and bits of French. The most co

Look at the Vietnamese alphabet, which is basically hacked together from Portuguese, colonialism, a massive amount of diacritics and bits of French. The most common surname in Vietnam, for example, is Nguyễn, with both a circumflex and a tilde on the e. One alphabet isn't always the best at expressing a particular language.