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Comment by ErikCorry

16 hours ago

Could also be Vietnamese, they are big on diacritics.

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xigoi  14 hours ago

Vietnamese can easily be recognized because most words are one syllable and the vowel may even have two diacritics stacked on top.

decimalenough  14 hours ago

Thanks to French, who came up with the current writing system.

  • DonaldFisk  13 hours ago

    A Portuguese Jesuit, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Pina

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