Curtis Clark asked: > Are there any languages that use letters with diacriticals, but *never* > use the base letter without diacriticals? A made-up example to explain > what made me think of it: Let's say a language has "�", to represent the > same sound that it does in German, but not "o", because the language > lacks the sound represented by that letter in common European languages > (the alternative being to use "o" to represent the "�" sound).
I believe Maltese uses "c" with a dot above but doesn't use the basic "c". Charles Cox
