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| Jun 28, 2014 at 14:01 | comment | added | Crissov | The real counter arguments, however, are language change and dialects. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 13:59 | comment | added | Crissov | @curiousdannii, have you ever seen 2 linguists agree on the exact number of phonemes of any given language? The number also isn’t relevant at all. When a language has very few phonemes it can actually make sense for its writing system to correlate many graphemes with a single phoneme, because this may help to disambiguate homophones, since words more often appear isolated in writing than in speech. Take Chinese and Japanese, though very different languages: their writing systems benefit greatly from sinograms (which in bulk are neither logograms nor ideograms but rather syllabograms). | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 10:33 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | I don't understand your argument. Sure it isn't possible to have a perfect phonetic script, but phonemic? Why wouldn't it be? Many languages have very few phonemes. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 14:34 | history | answered | Crissov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |