Curiously, a stereotypical infant directed speech instance that seems distinctly "oral" [0] is the union of those three options: "coo-chee, goo-chee, [k|g]oo".
[0] Perhaps only idiosyncratically.
Re:Japanese writing system basics
by chaostheory on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:32PM
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It's also hanzi character for mouth, the Chinese ideograph system that Kanji is derived from
Not to mention that the katakana for "ro" looks really similar depending on font: ロ
That's the big problem with logographic writing systems: there's no connection between the symbol and the sound. Japanese lets you fall-back to phonetic alphabet, but other languages (Chinese) don't have that feature.
Still, that was a fun post to read.