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human
ELI5: Unlike every other European language, why doesn't English have any diacritics (ë, ñ, å, etc) in the alphabet?
gpt
First, what you're talking about isn't just diacritics, but also additonal letters. Danish, for example, doesn't have any diacritics either, but it does have a few extra letters (æ, ø and å) -- but they are fully-fledged standalone letters, not diacritics added to a "normal" letter.

So your question should be broadened a bit, to "why doesn't English have any diacritics or letters that other languages don't have".

And the answer is, it does. Many/most European languages don't really use W, for example, and some typically omit it from the alphabet entirely.

So yes, english does have symbols that other languages don't use. Just like other languages have symbols that aren't used in English.