Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?
From: | Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 2, 2004, 14:10 |
From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>
> At 13:47 5/30/2004, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >I wonder which is more Maggellic, English or Tibetan... Irish Gaelic is
out: too phonemic an orthography ;) .
>
> English, no doubt. You can practically always figure out
> the pronunciation from a Tibetan spelling. You can't
> figure out the spelling from the pronunciation however,
> which is the source of most misspellings.
Irish Gaelic is slightly Maggelic, but Scots Gaelic is even more, since
Irish had its orthography reformed in the mid-20th century. French has a low
level of Maggelity, and modern Tamil also has a bit. Some of the Arabic
dialects could be considered Maggelic, since the Standard language tends
written while the local vernacular is spoken.