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> Vietnamese is one of the few recent adopters I know of to add unique accent marks, although they still use the same character set. This is an understatement
by gilleain 4y ago
> Vietnamese is one of the few recent adopters I know of to add unique accent marks, although they still use the same character set.
This is an understatement of how complex the Vietnamese writing system is (I speak not a single word).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet
They don't just have diacritics, they _stack_ them to form towers of diacritics. Ok, so only 2 high, but even so.