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> Why do Ç, å, é, etc. exist? Why didn't people come up with new characters? Why use "sh" and "ch" instead of making a new character for those sounds? (Maybe other languages do this but English doesn't).

English doesn't? Explain "w".



W is a ligature of “vv” which turned into a distict letter, similar to how “ae” turned into the letter æ. New letters in latin scripts seem to have evolved from either diacritics or ligatures. There are a few examples of letters borrowed from non-latin alphabets like þ in Old English




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