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zeme wrote:I know that Spanish is, Esperanto and Polish too, and that English, French, and German definitely aren't. What other languages are spelled the way they are written?
Formiko wrote:zeme wrote:I know that Spanish is, Esperanto and Polish too, and that English, French, and German definitely aren't. What other languages are spelled the way they are written?
Well, German is pretty phonetic. But I would also say Indonesian, Finnish, Hungarian,Swahili, Hawaiian and the other Pacific languages and African languages. Also Russian is pretty phonetic. 99% of words are pronounced exactly as spelled. One irregularity is его (pronounced yevo). Greek is also regular. Words even have the accents! How great is that? Khmer (Cambodian) is the most irregular language as well as Burmese (languages with alphabets). Hindi and Bengali are 95% regular. Arabic is definitely not, but Persian is.
mrhashimoto wrote:
Japanese, assuming you're reading it in kana is completely regular too.
mrhashimoto wrote:Awaits the day the dabblers (you know who you are) stop fucking with every language they hear and finally settle down and do something amazing with those they've chosen (挑戦).
mrhashimoto wrote:Japanese, assuming you're reading it in kana is completely regular too.
ILuvEire wrote:And Hashi, Japanese isn't totally regular. What about the particles は or へ, or the obscure words I see in the dictionary that says "irregular kana usage."
zeme wrote:I know that Spanish is, Esperanto and Polish too, and that English, French, and German definitely aren't. What other languages are spelled the way they are written?
lichtrausch wrote:mrhashimoto wrote:Awaits the day the dabblers (you know who you are) stop fucking with every language they hear and finally settle down and do something amazing with those they've chosen (挑戦).
Formiko wrote:Also Russian is pretty phonetic. 99% of words are pronounced exactly as spelled. One irregularity is его (pronounced yevo).
Formiko wrote:Greek is also regular. Words even have the accents! How great is that?
kibo wrote:Not as great as having 5 ways to spell /i/. Or are you talking about Ancient Greek?
ILuvEire wrote:I think that German is actually pretty phonetic, once you learn the rules.
linguoboy wrote:So far, all the languages people have been describing as "phonetic" in their spelling I would call "phonemic". The only orthographies I would describe as "phonetic" offhand are Irish and Sanskrit, since they both include significant amounts of phonetic detail that a more purely phonemic writing system would omit.
sennacherib wrote:ILuvEire wrote:I think that German is actually pretty phonetic, once you learn the rules.
I agree.
I think Estonian and Turkish are also pretty phonetic.
mrhashimoto wrote:sennacherib wrote:ILuvEire wrote:I think that German is actually pretty phonetic, once you learn the rules.
I agree.
I think Estonian and Turkish are also pretty phonetic.
Estonian is not.
linguoboy wrote:So far, all the languages people have been describing as "phonetic" in their spelling I would call "phonemic". The only orthographies I would describe as "phonetic" offhand are Irish and Sanskrit, since they both include significant amounts of phonetic detail that a more purely phonemic writing system would omit.
sennacherib wrote:mrhashimoto wrote:I think Estonian and Turkish are also pretty phonetic.
Estonian is not.
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