Phonemic orthography
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phonemic-orthography-206-5601066
title:
Phonemic orthography
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A phonemic orthography is an orthography in which the graphemes correspond consistently to the language's phonemes, or more generally to the language's diaphonemes. Natural languages rarely have perfectly phonemic orthographies; a high degree of grapheme–phoneme correspondence can be expected in orthographies based on alphabetic writing systems, but they differ in how complete this correspondence is. English orthography, for example, is alphabetic but highly nonphonemic. In less formally precise
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Orthography in which the graphemes correspond to the phonemes of the language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography
date created:
2003-11-24T08:55:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T17:06:32Z
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