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>The dotted/dotless "i" in Turkish is just plain broken A Turkish person looking at the English alphabet can make exactly the same argument in the other direct
by learnstats2 11y ago
>The dotted/dotless "i" in Turkish is just plain broken
A Turkish person looking at the English alphabet can make exactly the same argument in the other direction - plus, why does English only have five graphemes for vowels?
- pluma 11y agoIn principle I would agree, but the Atatürk alphabet was made up at the spot based on the existing Latin alphabets.
- ggreer 11y agoArguing in the other direction isn't as persuasive, because Turkish and English aren't the only two languages in existence. French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, and many others use the same letter i and have more vowel sounds than vowel characters. That's nobody's fault in particular, though. Unlike Turkish, these languages did not have their writing systems dictated from on high.
- learnstats2 11y agoFor example, Dutch has the letter IJ.
- pluma 11y ago... which actually has a ligature of its own, making it more similar to German umlauts (give or take a few hundred years of degrading handwriting shorthands).
- mrec 11y agoThat sounds awfully like reinventing grue/bleen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction