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> One interesting thing is that as Cyrillic has spread, new local characters have been added depending on the language Isn’t this true of Latin characters, too
by School-Cotton 4y ago
> One interesting thing is that as Cyrillic has spread, new local characters have been added depending on the language
Isn’t this true of Latin characters, too? German has ß; French doesn’t. Inversely for ù.
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoThe general tradition for Latin alphabets is to add diacritics to existing letters, which makes the text abstruse and nudges people to omit them.
- bombcar 4y agoEven English has a ton of digraphs which are technically two or more letters but are actually one "sound". We have a bunch in English but th, sh, ci are favorites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)#English