On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:01:17AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hmmmm... Silly me thought that Italian was the only Latin language > which used no diacritics. Which kind of accents does it have? Italian can have accents over vowels, some are read differently if they are grave or acute: à è é í ò ó ú À È É Í Ò Ó Ú it's also matter of debate if the accent over a, i or u is grave or acute. Dieresis are used in poetry, to split a diptongue (piëtà) as well as when writing words coming from some dialect (siüra). Circumflexes were used in the past when a word becoming plural would end in double 'i' (declivî). More could show up when spelling arcaic Italian (who sometimes had an extra letter for a sweet 'z' sound), dialects (who have all sort of diacritics that can change from dialect to dialect and from spelling method to spelling method) or of course when writing mixed languages in the boundary regions where there is more than one official language. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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