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They use the same written language with multiple spoken languages. That does not work with an alphabet. It can work if you make it work (and ignore side effect
by kafkaesq 10y ago
They use the same written language with multiple spoken languages. That does not work with an alphabet.
It can work if you make it work (and ignore side effects).
As attested by the many, many languages have been (forcibly) switched over to invented or completely foreign alphabets, over the millennia.
- Retric 10y agoYou can map a spoken language to a random set of symbols. long A sound = vr in language 1. Z sound = vr in language 2. But, unless each language also has a different spelling you can only have one language end up even vaguely phonetic, the other is just going to have random symbols mapping to words. As in "Krithnotrix" -> "Bob" because in L1 "Krithnotrix" translates to a short word. This means if you have 10 languages then ideograms are easier in 9/10 of them.
- kafkaesq 10y agoExcept that mappings between real languages and writing systems don't work that way (being in general far from truly phonetic).
- Retric 10y agoSure, they are not perfect, but you don't want rainbow and monkey to both be spelled VVKX because they are homonyms in another language so they must be homonyms in all your languages.