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>The point about Cyrillic having more letters is also misguided: you can make sounds with letter combinations. French has dozens and dozens of letter combos for

>The point about Cyrillic having more letters is also misguided: you can make sounds with letter combinations. French has dozens and dozens of letter combos for various sounds, let just list a small subset: au, eau, eu, ou, ui, oi, euil, ouil, un, an, in, en, oui, ui, sh, ch, cl, cr, tr, .... Could you please explain how you would represent these different sound and letter combinations in Latin script in a way that would make it obvious how to pronounce them correctly: ща(вель), ша(тун), сча(стье); че(й), чё(рный), чье(-то); This is just two random, very limited examples off the top of my head, not even the tip of the iceberg, but the point of the tip. By the way, Russian also has many regional dialects and accents.

Gravityloss 4y ago
Finnish has good correspondence between written and spoken form. This is achieved with extra letters compared to latin and not using some letters. German already had the extras: Ö and Ä. C and Q are not used, instead it's basically always K. There are no spelling bees in Finland. Everything that is said can only be spelled in one way. Everything that is written can only be spoken one way. Estonian has Ō in addition because they really have one more wovel. A latinized Russian should have a different character for each s-like character like it's now in cyrillic. Also, everybody should look at English and French spelling as something definitely NOT to do. Spanish is also good but they are actually close to latin so it's no surprise the latin alphabet also works. German is not so great as the match between spoken and written is quite loose. Both wovels and consonants change with context.