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"Alphabet = Every phoneme (consonant and vowel) has a distinct glyph." That's not really true of the Latin alphabet as used in English, is it? "f" and "ph" co
by pmoriarty 6y ago
"Alphabet = Every phoneme (consonant and vowel) has a distinct glyph."
That's not really true of the Latin alphabet as used in English, is it?
"f" and "ph" could be pronounced the same, as in "fox" and "phone".
"c" and "k" could be pronounced the same, as in "cow" and "kiss".
So a multiple glyphs could represent the same phoneme.
- jcranmer 6y agoReal languages, and especially phonetic drift over the centuries, do complicate the analysis somewhat. But the fact that some English phonemes in Latin script require the use of digraphs instead of single glyphs or there are multiple glyphs with the same phonemic value doesn't change the fact that the Latin script is providing glyphs for both consonants and vowels.
- sauropterygia 6y agoThe same way Japanese is not a 'pure' syllabary (or moraic) script, as there are 1 mora syllables written with more than 1 symbol in an alphabet like fashion, such as しゃ (shi + small a = sha) or more recently ファ (fu + small a = fa)