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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 9 of 96 19 May 2009 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
Actually there are phonetic rules for this so you would know which one is correct. Since they are rather simple I would list them but I'm out of practice and also really tired at the moment and so can't recall them clearly. It's not as hard as it would be at first glance though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5697 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 10 of 96 19 May 2009 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Turkish, my opinion, is a very phonetic language.
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 11 of 96 19 May 2009 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||
Turkey adopted the Latin script only in recent history ( some 50-80 years ago? I'm not sure ) Half a century is probably not enough time for the spelling to drift away from its phonetic transcription. Some people push forward Bulgarian as the most phonetic language in the Slavic family. It is not completely phonetic (e.g. stress is variable and there are some difficult to distinguish sounds) but overall you write what you hear. Edited by Sennin on 19 May 2009 at 11:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rlf1810 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6340 days ago 122 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, German, Slovak | Message 12 of 96 19 May 2009 at 11:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Slovak is a very phonetic language. Every letter has one sound and every word is stressed on the same syllable, unlike some other Slavic languages. You can know 99.9% of the time exactly how to pronounce a word. The ONLY exception being with foreign loanwords, which is a very small matter of a consonant not being soft where it would be in an originally Slovak word.
It's an orthographic dream. -Robert 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7077 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 13 of 96 19 May 2009 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think Indonesian is pretty phonetic.
Korean has a lot of spelling irregularities... but these irregularities are regular ;)
...Nor count particles は / へ ;) But yes, using furigana, Japanese definitely is phonetic. Edited by andee on 19 May 2009 at 1:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5728 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 14 of 96 19 May 2009 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Polish is definietly a very phonetic language. Stress is very regular (with few exceptions) and once you get the rules (how to pronounce each letter or each diagraph) it goes smoothly.
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| Thatzright Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5672 days ago 202 posts - 311 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French, Swedish, German, Russian | Message 15 of 96 19 May 2009 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finnish is indeed a very phonetic language. Everything is spelled like it is written, really, can't think of exceptions right now. I would say the rule thing about Polish above applies to Finnish too, sure the letters are pronounced very differently from English, but once you get how they are pronounced, you can pretty much pronounce everything correctly.
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| MartinB Triglot Newbie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5699 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: German*, Esperanto, English | Message 16 of 96 19 May 2009 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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From my own experience:
Esperanto is pretty much phonetic. Hungarian as well. Once you master the pronounciation rules, and some special cases like sz,cs you can easily read a text and have a hungarian understand it. There are some exceptions to the rules still. Martin 1 person has voted this message useful |
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