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It seems a bit of an arbitrary choice. For example, Polish has digraphs, but Czech has diacritics, and Icelandic has a couple of additional letters that aren't modified Latin letters.

Old English had four letters that are not in today's US-ASCII, two of which are borrowed from a runic alphabet rather than created by modifying Latin letters.

It's also a bit arbitrary whether a modified Latin letter is regarded as a new character or an existing character modified by a diacritic: take Ø, for example. And there are characters like Æ. And never forget what Turkish did: add dotless i so that ordinary i could then be regarded as dotless i plus a diacritic (though of course it isn't usually regarded that way).



Polish has digraphs (ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, sz), trigraphs (dzi), and diacritics (ąćęłńóśźż).


Also not all letters of the English alphabet are universally used or existed in latin: latin didn't discern v and u, and there was no w.


Consider that runic letters come from latin letters normally.


The runic alphabet is probably derived from latin, but it adds new letters like eth and thorn which does not correspond to latin letters.


That might be the case but its definitely not a fact.




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