A number of North American Native languages use a character+diacritic when no character-diacritic exists.
-Romanised Cree has <ē> but no <e> -Some west-coast Salishan languages have LATIN LAMBDA WITH STROKE+COMBINING COMMA ABOVE, but no plain LATIN LAMBDA WITH STROKE -a number of languages (e.g. Meskwaki) use <č> but not <c>. However, most if not all North American Native languages have multiple orthographies historically if not synchronically. So some Cree speakers who are using Roman orthography may very well write <e> instead of <ē> for reasons of graphical economy. Chris Harvey -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
