This is a good point that spelling everything phonetically is probably not a great/sustainable way of writing a language. I’m wondering if there’s a word for “spelling system where each letter corresponds to exactly one sound but that sound can change with consistency based on regional dialect/inflection/other context”. I think Spanish is a great example of a relatively straightforward spelling system with regional dialects that generally preserves the consistent mapping of letters to sounds. Granted it has some oddities (like “h” having no sound, the redundancy of “s” and “c”, the “qu-” prefix, etc). I’m curious what historically caused languages like Spanish, and German to maintain much more logical spelling rules while neighboring languages from similar groups like English, French, and Danish do not.
I’m wondering if there’s a word for “spelling system where each letter corresponds to exactly one sound but that sound can change with consistency based on regional dialect/inflection/other context”.
This is a good point that spelling everything phonetically is probably not a great/sustainable way of writing a language. I’m wondering if there’s a word for “spelling system where each letter corresponds to exactly one sound but that sound can change with consistency based on regional dialect/inflection/other context”. I think Spanish is a great example of a relatively straightforward spelling system with regional dialects that generally preserves the consistent mapping of letters to sounds. Granted it has some oddities (like “h” having no sound, the redundancy of “s” and “c”, the “qu-” prefix, etc). I’m curious what historically caused languages like Spanish, and German to maintain much more logical spelling rules while neighboring languages from similar groups like English, French, and Danish do not.
There’s an implementation!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengwar