Languages without diacritics

[zeme]

Obviously English has no diacritics or accents whatsoever, and I was wondering what other languages have that feature.
I know at least Ido doesn't have any..are there other languages?

[Kasuya]

Obviously English has no diacritics or accents whatsoever, and I was wondering what other languages have that feature.
I know at least Ido doesn't have any..are there other languages?

Sign language.

[Formiko]

Dutch, Indonesian, Swahili, Wolof.

[JackFrost]

Obviously English has no diacritics or accents whatsoever, and I was wondering what other languages have that feature.
I know at least Ido doesn't have any..are there other languages?

They do exist in English. Only in foreign loan words... like résumé.

[linguaholic]

Dutch, Indonesian, Swahili, Wolof.

Don't know about the other ones, but Dutch has a few
-in loan words
- to mark that two vowels are not to be read as a diphtong (i.e. beïnvloeden = influence)
- to mark emphasis

[Boes]

Dutch, Indonesian, Swahili, Wolof.

Don't know about the other ones, but Dutch has a few
-in loan words
- to mark that two vowels are not to be read as a diphtong (i.e. beïnvloeden = influence)
- to mark emphasis

Indeed, but Dutch has no specific letters containing diacritcs such as the Norwegian ø ... the few diacritics it uses (mainly the trema) are meant as 'reader guide' not as letters with a totally different pronunciation. It's fair to say that on the whole, Dutch doesn't really use diacritics.

[svld]

How about Chinese, Egyptian, Mayan, and Sumerian?

[Ludwig Whitby]

How about Chinese, Egyptian, Mayan, and Sumerian?

Yah, and Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic...

[Formiko]

How about Chinese, Egyptian, Mayan, and Sumerian?

I think he means languages that use the Roman alphabet.

[0stsee]

Dutch, Indonesian, Swahili, Wolof.

True. Indonesian doesn't use diacritics and AFAIK Dutch doesn't either.

Do Sebuano and Tagalog use diacritics?

[ILuvEire]

Tagalog uses ´ ` and ^

[ILuvEire]

Tagalog uses ´ ` and ^

[Quevenois]

Ok.

[Sol Invictus]

Any language can be written without diacritics

[Tukkumminnguaq]

Some Inuit dialect dont have diacritics (Inuinnaqtun, South Baffin, Nunavik Inuttitut, Kalaallisut/rest of Greenlandic dialect) and Yupik...

[hashi]

Does it count as a diacritic if a letter like ö, ä or ü are considered separate letters?

[zeme]

Yes.

[Nukalurk]

Shouldn't the dot of "i" also count as diacritic?

[Æren]

Tagalog uses ´ ` and ^

Yes, it does, only in the good grammar books In the everyday language they are omitted.

[kibo]

Serbian Cyrillic...

We use diacritics in some special circumstances, e.g. when it's necessary to mark the accents (in linguistic texts). We also use the circumflex (^) to mark the long vowel in genitive plural when the meaning is ambiguous (and there are other usages as well). Or at least we should because nobody does that.

Користимо дијакритике у неким посебним приликама, нпр. кад је неопходно обележити акценте (у лингвистичким текстивима). Такође користимо циркумфлекс (^) за обележавање дугог вокала у генитиву множине ако је значење двосмислено (а постоје и друге употребе). Или би барем требало да користимо пошто то нико не ради.