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Spanish is "strictly phonetic" English is "[very] loosely phonetic" Hieroglyphic systems are "non-phonetic"
by rcoveson 3y ago
Spanish is "strictly phonetic"
English is "[very] loosely phonetic"
Hieroglyphic systems are "non-phonetic"
- josefx 3y ago> Hieroglyphic systems are "non-phonetic" Wasn't there at least one that just encoded letters almost identical to the alphabet we use?
- wl 3y agoThe Latin alphabet is ultimately derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- wl 3y agoEgyptian hieroglyphs are, for the most part, phonetic.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoFunnily enough, Egyptian hieroglyphs were in fact phonetic: they just used recognizable pictures instead of abstract symbols to represent the sounds. It's possible they were sometimes used as ideograms too, but not the standard. Chinese ideograms are not phonetic, because seeing the written character gives you no indication of what the sound of the spoken word is.