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Right, 85% for English sounds plausible. For Spanish, I'd venture much closer to 100%. For Chinese, around two thirds of characters contain a phonetic component
by FabHK 5y ago
Right, 85% for English sounds plausible. For Spanish, I'd venture much closer to 100%. For Chinese, around two thirds of characters contain a phonetic component.
In other words, English is around half way between Spanish and Chinese :-)
Oh, and in Spanish it is bijective: if you know the pronunciation, you pretty much know the spelling also.
- ralferoo 5y agoThe counter example for Spanish is b/v which is pretty much the same sound in most dialects nowadays, and it seems increasingly common to see misspellings online, e.g. baca for cow.