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Multilingual Functionality

Alphabets Including a Particular Letter

Using Alphabet and the list of entities of "Alphabet" type, it is easy to find which alphabets contain a particular letter.

Try to find which ones have the letters ø, æ, ñ, or и.

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alphabetEntities = EntityList["Alphabet"];
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Select[alphabetEntities, MemberQ[Alphabet[#], "ø"] &]
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Select[alphabetEntities, MemberQ[Alphabet[#], "æ"] &]
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Select[alphabetEntities, MemberQ[Alphabet[#], "ñ"] &]
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Select[alphabetEntities, MemberQ[Alphabet[#], "и"] &]
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Get variants of the vowel o using AlphabeticOrder.

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lettersO = Select[CharacterRange[1, 65535], AlphabeticOrder["o", #, IgnoreDiacritics -> True, IgnoreCase -> False] == 0 &]
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Build a function to extract which languages contain a particular letter.

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alphabets = Alphabet /@ alphabetEntities; getAlphabet[letter_] := Pick[alphabetEntities, MemberQ[#, letter] & /@ alphabets];

Show the o vowel variants and their alphabets.

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TextGrid[DeleteCases[{#, Row@getAlphabet[#]} & /@ Rest[lettersO] , {_, Row@{}}], Frame -> All, Alignment -> {Left, Center}]
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