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 Message 33 of 96
06 July 2010 at 9:12am | IP Logged 
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
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 Message 34 of 96
06 July 2010 at 9:37am | IP Logged 
gengoguy wrote:
No language is as phonetic as Romanian, you know exactly how to read everyword and also
write new ones. There are no exceptions.


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

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 Message 35 of 96
06 July 2010 at 9:42am | IP Logged 
Hencke wrote:
Not phonetic: English, German, French, Scandinavian languages.


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.

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 Message 36 of 96
06 July 2010 at 9:49am | IP Logged 
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.

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 Message 37 of 96
07 July 2010 at 12:26am | IP Logged 
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No language is as phonetic as Romanian.....

Not really, the word “sunt” is pronounced “sânt” but it’s written with U.


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.
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 Message 38 of 96
07 July 2010 at 3:38am | IP Logged 
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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 Message 39 of 96
07 July 2010 at 4:46am | IP Logged 
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.
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 Message 40 of 96
07 July 2010 at 10:38am | IP Logged 
daniela wrote:
Quote:
No language is as phonetic as Romanian.....

Not really, the word “sunt” is pronounced “sânt” but it’s written with U.


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.


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.


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