choc_pud wrote:
Vietnamese. Also French.
French really doesn't have that many diacritics, certainly not when compared to Vietnamese. Compare:
"Tous les êtres humains naissent libres et égaux en dignité et en droits. Ils sont doués de raison et de conscience et doivent agir les uns envers les autres dans un esprit de fraternité."
Total diacritics: 5. (Only two more than Portuguese.)
"Mọi người sinh ra đều được tự do và bình đẳng về nhân phẩm và quyền. Mọi người đều được phú bẩm về lý trí và lương tâm và vì thế phải đối xử với nhau trên tinh thần bác ái."
Total diacritics: A metric shitpile.
Eastern European languages tend to have more diacritics than Western. The Polish version of Article 1 of the UDHR, for instance, has 8, the Czech has 12, and the Hungarian has 14. In (Puristic) Greek, every word has at least one diacritic, since accentuation is always indicated explicitly, even on monosyllables. (Now that Greek is no longer written polytonicly, only polysyllables routinely carry accents. Still enough to give the Greek version of Article 1 two more diacritics than the Hungarian.)
