Re: Phonomic & Phonetic writing [was; pseudo welsh etc]

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> Barbara Barrett scripsit:
>
> > I think that one of the ways one *might* spot a constructed language is
> > finding 2 or more letters (phonetically distinct) that are the same
> > phoneme and could have been represented by a single letter.
>
> Hepburn-style Japanese romanization has this property, as does practical
> Quechua orthography.  We write "Mitsubishi" although phonemically it is
> "Mitubisi", and Quechua writes five vowels despite having only three
> vowel phonemes.
Or English [V]/[@], where the first is usually spelled "u" (hut, mutton..), and
the second usualy not spelled "u"...


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