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I wouldn't say it's related in any way to the alphabet in use. Take the English 'a' as an example: skate and car produce two different sounds out of the same le
by nakkiel 15y ago
I wouldn't say it's related in any way to the alphabet in use. Take the English 'a' as an example: skate and car produce two different sounds out of the same letter.
Alphabets transmit words, much less so sounds.
- ajuc 15y ago> Alphabets transmit words, much less so sounds. In English, that is. Some languages using latin script always use the same sound for the same letter (how it should be done, IMHO).
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- michael_dorfman 15y agoSure, but F and E and completely different letters, even if they are almost identical (except for the little bar at the base of the E that is missing on the F). A and Å are different letters, and can't be substituted for each other.
- petsos 15y agoIn english. Other languages have a much stronger correlation between characters and sounds.
- killedbydeath 15y agoMany alphabets do a good job transmitting sounds. Spanish, French or German are easy to read. English is particularly bad at having any correlation between spelling and pronunciation. "Spelling bee" would make little sense in most languages.
- oozcitak 15y agoThere are languages with true alphabets, ie. there is a one-to-one relation with written letters and sounds. A good example is Turkish. Once you learn the sounds of the 29 letters in the alphabet, you can perfectly pronounce all Turkish words.