Timeline for Is there a language whose writing is 100% phonemic?
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| Jan 11 at 21:59 | comment | added | Anixx | If it uses ng for /ŋ/, it is not phonemic already. The question was abouy one to one correspondence between characters and phonemes | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 23:06 | history | edited | Gaston Ümlaut | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jun 4, 2022 at 5:43 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2019 at 19:02 | comment | added | Ivan Golović | @LjL Diacritics pronounced like in English would be: 1) Č (capital), č - pronounced like in English "ch", 2) Ć, ć - "ch" but softer than "č", 3) Š, š - "sh", 4) Ž, ž - "zh" Here is how I pronounced č, ć, š, ž respectively: drive.google.com/open?id=11LpCHCy0WbwRVvMo-jUgnojcZn4_yv8h | |
| May 27, 2019 at 17:59 | comment | added | LjL | @IvanG how do you pronounce a diacritic? | |
| May 17, 2019 at 19:12 | comment | added | Ivan Golović | I am no linguist but Croatian is my first language and it is so phonemic that I used to find it a bit odd that other languages had different spelling and pronounciation when I first started learning them. Diacritics are used always, written and pronounced, they sound very different and can be distinguished easily when pronounced. | |
| S May 6, 2019 at 9:35 | history | suggested | Miztli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2015 at 3:41 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | @CJDennis I admit I was cheating in my wording... those languages when written 1000+ years ago were not in their modern forms 'as now spoken' (and modern day speakers of those languages would mostly not understand their ancestral tongues as spoken 1000 years ago). Apart of course from languages that already had no native-speaking community so were preserved rigidly e.g. Latin, Ancient Greek, etc (incl. Hebrew). | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 3:06 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | @Gaston Arabic, Hebrew, Georgian, Armenian, Chinese... should I go on? | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 22:24 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | Hi @CJDennis, no language now spoken had a written form until relatively recently (leaving aside languages such as classical latin, ancient greek, etc), the last 1000 years or so. And most of the languages that are now written only came to be so within the last 100 years. Anyway, the OP made no mention of excluding recently developed writing systems. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 5:55 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | Aren't Australian languages a bad example? As far as I know, no Australian language had a written form before the arrival of Europeans, therefore when creating a written language it makes sense to keep the orthography consistent. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 23:37 | comment | added | Mechanical snail | Also, Malay orthography doesn't distinguish the phonemes /e/ and /ə/, and doesn't distinguish hiatus between adjacent vowels. | |
| May 24, 2012 at 2:50 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | @Mechanicalsnail You're quite right, the standard orthography does not show pitch-accent and so is not perfectly phonemic. Having said that, there are not many minimal pairs for the pitch-accent and there is a standard set of diacritics that are typically used in dictionaries and are (I believe) understood by speakers. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 23:20 | comment | added | Mechanical snail | Doesn't Serbo-Croatian have distinctive pitch accent, which isn't represented at all in the orthography? | |
| May 20, 2012 at 14:07 | history | edited | Gaston Ümlaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2012 at 13:41 | history | edited | Gaston Ümlaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2012 at 9:51 | history | edited | Alenanno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2012 at 6:11 | history | answered | Gaston Ümlaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |