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| Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5318 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 12 August 2010 at 3:53am | IP Logged |
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Im reading on wikipedia that Arabic, like English has a very poor phoneme:grapheme ratio.
I cant get that as what I did take of Arabic every letter corresponded to exactly one sound and every sound (when heard "correctly" e.g. س vs ص) only corresponded to one letter. Is wikipedia wrong or am I the 'tard? It would seem to me that if you cant call that a 1:1 ratio then its at least as morpho-phonetic as German is, but I dont see how it can be lumped with English and French in that regard... EDIT: I meant to say "grapheme", not "morpheme" Edited by Ubik on 13 August 2010 at 12:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 5 12 August 2010 at 6:31am | IP Logged |
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Morphemes are not letters. You're correct in that Arabic is almost perfectly phonetic, but that's not what Wikipedia is talking about. I don't completely understand what the article is trying to say (what exactly is a "poor" ratio?), but I'm pretty sure that's not it. English is very obviously highly unphonetic, while Arabic is about as phonetic as major languages get.
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| Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5318 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish | Message 4 of 5 13 August 2010 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
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Fixed. Thank you.
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| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 5 of 5 13 August 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, so Wikipedia was actually talking about letters? That doesn't make sense at all. I think it just goes to show that not everything you read on the internet machine is true. Do you have a link to the article?
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