Re: Paludism

Helmut Richter <hhr-m@xxxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone know of a modern language (other than English, if we don't
count a few borrowings like "café") that uses the Roman alphabet
without any diacritics?

Swahili.

... and quite some other Bantu langauges; Malay, Tagalog, Malagasy and
quite some other Austronesian languages including many Polynesian ones;
Westgreenlandic; Oromo and Somali; and, last but not least, Latin.

Several languages use the apostrophe like a letter or diacritic, e.g.
Hawaiian and Swahili, so they are questionable.

All the Polynesian languages I can think of off the top of my head
(Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian) use a macron to indicate
long vowels, so they are right out.

But we can add Tok Pisin to the list.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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