Arabic-L:PEDA:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion

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Date: 01 Jun 2006
From:srpkole at EUnet.yu
Subject:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion

This is just to answer a lateral question set by Martha: "...but then  
what writing system for any language has a perfect one to one  
correspondence of sound to symbol?"

Serbian cyrillic in the first place. 30 phonems equal to 30 graphems.  
Total one to one correspondence, both directions, save for minor and  
inevitable allophones. It is so since the middle of 19th century.

Japanese hiragana too, though it is sylabic and not at all sufficient  
to represent the other dimensions of the language.

There are probably more.

Srpko

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