1. A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device of a type including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein an alphabet and a plurality of language objects, the alphabet comprising a core alphabet, an extended alphabet, and a plurality of linguistic elements, the core alphabet comprising at least some of the linguistic elements, the extended alphabet comprising at least a first linguistic element not in the core alphabet, the language objects each comprising a number of the linguistic element, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, at least some of the input members each having a plurality of the linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting as an ambiguous input a number of actuations of a number of input member including a particular input member having assigned thereto the at least first linguistic element and at least one linguistic element in the core alphabet; producing a number of prefix objects each including a number of the linguistic elements of the ambiguous input, at least some of the prefix objects comprising the at least first linguistic element; for each of at least some of the prefix objects, seeking a word object corresponding with the prefix object; generating as a number of artificial variants a number of objects for which a corresponding word object does not exist and each comprising a linguistic element of each input member of the ambiguous input; and employing in said generating fewer than all of the linguistic elements assigned to the particular input member.