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Let me guess. Your native language is phonetic based and is alphabet based, just like English.
by ww520 16y ago
Let me guess. Your native language is phonetic based and is alphabet based, just like English.
- rsuttongee 16y agoI could be wrong, but isn't that the case for most everyone on the planet? Looking at this map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system it seems that with the exception of China, Japan, and Korea (which has very limited use) the whole world uses some form of a phonetic writing system.
- rmah 16y agoThe korean writing system, hangul, is phonetic.
- gizmomagico 16y agoAnd lovely, by the way.
- Gormo 16y agoSo are the hiragana and katakana components of Japanese writing.
- rsuttongee 16y agoYeah, I know hangul is phonetic, but I've also heard they make use of a variant of chinese characters in some limited fashion (mostly give names, place names, and academic histories).