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Aquila123
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 Message 89 of 96
23 August 2013 at 12:34pm | IP Logged 
The most phonetic language might be Georgian, which also has its own alphabet. The languages has an easy noun declension, but an intricate verbal conjugation and rules for use of cases that any real nerd will love. It is a polysynthetic language which also carries a rich cultural heritage.

By the way, most polysynthetic languages are written phonemically, for example also Navajo and Swahili. Modern Greek and Italian are also tending towards polysythetism, even though pronominal affixes often are written separately. Italian is written nearly phonemically.

Edited by Aquila123 on 23 August 2013 at 8:07pm

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 Message 90 of 96
23 August 2013 at 7:13pm | IP Logged 
Croatian is pretty phonetic.
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 Message 91 of 96
08 September 2013 at 6:08pm | IP Logged 
Czech and Slovak are both very phonetic.

I think with this statement I won the entire discussion :) :) :)

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 Message 92 of 96
27 May 2014 at 11:40am | IP Logged 
Aquila123 wrote:
Modern Greek and Italian are also tending towards polysythetism, even
though pronominal affixes often are written separately.


I, can you argumentate more this sentence? Do you have link, examples etc?
I don't know anything about greek but I'm Italian and it would be really interesting to
know more about it.
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 Message 93 of 96
27 May 2014 at 12:06pm | IP Logged 
The most phonetic language in Europe must be Serbian, which has not one, but TWO reasonably phonetical alphabets. Its competitors like Croatian just have one. However to compensate for the simplicity of both alphabets the language itself has a lot of irregularities, and it is irritating that grammars have all quotes written twice.
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 Message 94 of 96
28 May 2014 at 12:22pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
The most phonetic language in Europe must be Serbian, which has not one, but TWO reasonably phonetical alphabets. Its competitors like Croatian just have one. However to compensate for the simplicity of both alphabets the language itself has a lot of irregularities, and it is irritating that grammars have all quotes written twice.


I think Macedonian is more phonetic than Serbian,
Serbian (just like Croatian and Bosnian) has a pitch accent,
but it does not mark it in spelling (unlike northern Vietnamese
which marks tonal values with diacritics).
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 Message 95 of 96
28 May 2014 at 1:43pm | IP Logged 
You may be right, but the point is that Serbian is reasonably phonetical in two different alphabets - the others may be more phonetical, but only with reference to one alphabet.
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 Message 96 of 96
10 June 2014 at 5:58pm | IP Logged 
Polysynthetic tendencies in modern Greek and Italian

The point is that in each verb form the enclitic pronouns, adverbs and auxiliary verbs behave like affixes to the verb. They come in a fixed order according to a strict template and they often merge togeather or change shape according to the surroundings.

There is a rather heavy article about it on the net about Greek, but I cannot see that Italian is much different.

http://www.linguistik-online.de/34_08/charitonidis.pdf




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