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English is one of the rare languages that have heteronyms, and that's extremely weird for anyone coming from a language without them. https://en.wikipedia.org/

• Mithaldu 9y ago
  To be a little more exact: Have large amounts of heteronyms to have them be common and not strange exceptions.
  • yongjik 9y ago
    English spelling is horrible, but I feel that the number of English heteronyms is not notably high, especially considering the state of the spelling system. I think heteronyms are bound to arise in most languages with Latin-based orthography, because they tend to borrow words from other Latin-alphabet-based languages without changing spelling. Some words are bound to collide with an existing word with the same spelling.
• yehi 9y ago
  seeing as most Semitic languages are written without vowels, I would assume that almost all of them have heteronyms
• yread 9y ago
  Lots of languages have them but their wikipedias don't have that article: French, Swedish, Arabic, Dutch, Turkish, Czech, Latin, Italian, Spanish. Surprisingly even languages with orthographic depth of 1 have them https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/heteronym-homograph.2531268/ https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/heteronym-homograph....