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		PyWoody 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why English doesn't use accents If you go back even further, you get the iota subscript [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_subscript

demetrius 5 months ago [–]

Iota subscript is a 12-century invention. Rough and smooth breathings (ἁ for ha, ἀ for a) are much older Greek diacritics.

For another example of classical diacritics, see apices in Latin (á for long a).

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