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Very misleading, English doesn't have diacritics but it has copious amounts of digraphs like ch, sh, tch, eu, oe, oo etc... All of which may represent a differe
by gnulinux 4y ago
Very misleading, English doesn't have diacritics but it has copious amounts of digraphs like ch, sh, tch, eu, oe, oo etc... All of which may represent a different sound (being a Germanic language, English has a huge variety of vowels).
Some Latin-based alphabets such as Turkish and Eastern European specifically attempted to solve this problem (e.g. use [Ç] instead of [ch] in Turkish or [Š] instead of [sh] in Czech et al). You may not consider digraph usage a problem, but historically, for some reason, many alphabet designers went this route.
So, from this perspective it doesn't hold true English seems the most suitable for Latin alphabet.
I think quite the opposite, Latin alphabet completely lacks the resources English needs to present its vowels consistently.