Talk:Cast/@comment-25632218-20150717151914/@comment-5288784-20150717171738

Yeah, It's easy to find an alphabet of most languages on the web.

Let's see: Hungarian has 9 combinations, quite impressive. I'm not sure whether we should count Q, W, X and Y, but since many languages have the rule of preserving the spelling of some words verbatim, let's just only count additions. So that would be 18 extra elements.

Slovak had a nice head start with diacritics, and it also has its own letter combos. "Dz", "Dž" and "Ch" bring the total up to 20.

Polish is a little different. It also has its own letter combos in pronuncation, but it ignores them when ordering words. But let's assume it would be counted, how many extra elements would Polish have? Let's start with obvious ones: "Ch" (IMO, most likely to be get rid of in the next hundred years or so), "Cz", "Dz", "Dź", "Dż", "Rz", "Sz". Hmm, 7 digraphs, but wait… such lists also tend to include trigraph "Dzi". That would be 8. Hmm, but what would be the logical reason to include "Dzi"? It sounds like "Dź" anyway, except that we write "Dzi" instead of "Dź" before vowels (Because it looks better? Either that, or because it was cheaper to use less diacritcs in printing, where you could import mass-produced fonts from abroad instead of making your own). But we do exactly that with bunch of other consonants with lines as diacritics, and following that logic we should also have "Ci", "Ni", "Si" and "Zi". Oh, look, we just reached 12 letter combinations and 21 additions total!

PS: Fun pronuncation fact:

Polish "Sz" = Hungarian "S" Hungarian "Sz" = Polish "S"