Since 1986, when California voted to make English its official language, residents have not been able to include diacritic marks like accents and tildes in official documents — like drivers’ licenses ...
Overall, each consonant-graph and vowel-diacritic creates a grapheme that many have equated to be syllables. The founder of the Gurmukhi abugida was the second guru of the faith, Guru Angad Dev Ji.