Spanish and English, Phonetic vs. non-Phonetic
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Other than English, what non-phonetic languages are there? I ask this given that Spanish and English are obviously different in this way.
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updated Mar 5, 2013
posted by Ray_Vanek-1ohnson
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Linguistics is not my specialty (I really do not have speciality anymore since I am a retired engineer) but, forgive me for giving obvious examples of languages such as Chinese and Japanese which cannot be phonetic since they do not use an alphabet. To say that English is totally non-phonetic is, I think, an over simplification.
updated Mar 5, 2013
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