It is phonetic, period. It is not 1:1 symbol to sound, but it is all sounds. Hence phonetic. This is in contrast to logographic symbol sets, that do not corr

It is phonetic, period. It is not 1:1 symbol to sound, but it is all sounds. Hence phonetic. This is in contrast to logographic symbol sets, that do not correspond to sound encodings. Think emoji. Advanced grammar is a trap in all languages.