Map of alphabets in Europe

[Dandelion]

So many weird letters that's were barely used. á, é, í, ó, ú are more optional word emphasisers that barely anyone uses. And ë is the most common glottal stop denoter, ï less common. I can't think of examples with ä, ö and ü though, and they're more common in German as umlauts loanwords if any.

English also has all those letters, in loanwords, yet the map doesn't say so. The language does take over unusual letters in loanwords. For instance: I have seen English texts write oeuvre as œuvre like in French. It's also written like that in dictionaries.

[Dandelion]

Btw, one American tourist asked me:
When the Czechs left Cyrillic script for Latin one? After fall of the Communism?
My answer shocked him:
More than 1000 years ago

The type of doofus that would buy matrioshki dolls and bear hats in tourist shop in Prague.

Interestingly, the Cyrillic script is clearly made for the Slavic branch. Where Latin script requires more than one letter for many consonant clusters as well as diacritic signs as Czech is full of, in Russian it's often just written by single letters like щ, ш, ч and ц.

In German transliteration of Russian it's even crazy. Like Никита Хрущёв in German is written as Nikita Chruschtschow.

[Pausanias]

All of these are variations of the Greek one.

[Mikula]

I think for transcription / transliteration names from non-Latin alphabets are better languages what use diacritical marks .
See how is written name of the Russian composer Чайковский in various languages:

Croatian - Čajkovski
Czech - Čajkovskij
English - Tchaikovsky
French - Tchaïkovski
German - Tschaikowski
Hungarian - Csajkovszkij
Lithuanian - Čaikovskis
Polish - Czajkowski
Romanian - Ceaikovski
Turkish - Çaykovski