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| gengoguy Newbie Israel Joined 5257 days ago 2 posts - 4 votes | Message 33 of 96 06 July 2010 at 9:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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No language is as phonetic as Romanian, you know exactly how to read everyword and also write new ones. There are no exceptions.
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| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes  Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 34 of 96 06 July 2010 at 9:37am | IP Logged | |||||
Not really, the word “sunt” is pronounced “sânt” but it’s written with U. Moreover, the Romanian orthography doesn’t mark the stress. Edited by MäcØSŸ on 06 July 2010 at 9:39am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 35 of 96 06 July 2010 at 9:42am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, I agree with this. I find English and Danish extremely unphonetic. You can find the proof of this, when you study or only read the IPA of these languages. I can only estimate Danish but for me it's interesting to know that the other Scandinavian languages aren't phonetic either. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 06 July 2010 at 9:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 36 of 96 06 July 2010 at 9:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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Looking though my own language collection - my most phonetic languages are:
Turkish and Esperanto and - to a lesser extent - Spanish and Italian The IPA of the latter languages is quite simple to learn, which is an indication that Spanish and Italian are quite phonetic. If you read or study the IPA of languages, you will get a clear idea of how phonetic a language really is. If the IPA of a language is really complex (like for example the IPA of English) then such a language cannot be phonetic. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 06 July 2010 at 10:06am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| daniela Newbie Romania Joined 5283 days ago 18 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Romanian* | Message 37 of 96 07 July 2010 at 12:26am | IP Logged | |||||
The word "sunt" should be pronounced "sunt". There is another story behind this confusion. Not too long ago, some academy members decided that is their right to change the way we talk and spell our words. From a simple orthography they made such rules that many of us don't know anymore when to use â and when to use î. This was easier to accept, but the change from "sînt" to "sunt" was much harder. Many don't like it. Many don't use it. It's a shame that political reasons and the stupidity of the ones supposed to be the smartest of all, artificially complicated a beautiful language. I even understood that the two linguists in the Academy voted one against and one abstained. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| exscribere Diglot Senior Member IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5281 days ago 104 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English*, Danish Studies: Mandarin, French, Korean, Hindi | Message 38 of 96 07 July 2010 at 3:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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I second (third?) the Devanagari orthography, though my experience is with Hindi rather than Sanskrit. I'm curious how the Urdu orthography fits in, but... so far, I have to say it's a delightful change from English and French. :)
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| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5382 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 39 of 96 07 July 2010 at 4:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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I knew there was a reason I can sort of follow along with Finnish when I'm studying, but spoken Swedish leaves me scratching my head saying, "What? Where did that piece of that word go?" (being a native English speaker I can't really complain without being a bit hypocritical! )
I love both languages though.....and Spanish is course pretty phonetic. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 40 of 96 07 July 2010 at 10:38am | IP Logged | |||||
Those rules doesn’t seem very hard actually. You just use Î at the beginning or end of a word and  in the middle, which (usually) makes sense ethnologically and it’s also aesthetically more appealing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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