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Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by davidivadavid on Friday December 16, 2016 @12:18PM (#13194834)
But that problem is entirely due to English, not the roman alphabet. Same in French. No such problem in German or Italian.
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Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by vinay427 on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:59PM (#13196760)
You would need quite a few diacritics to map to all of the Hindi phonemes, especially including loanword phonemes (/z/, etc.) I'm not saying this is bad, but it's not the easy solution that it was made out to be. Meanwhile, Devanagari handles consonant and vowel phonemes quite consistently as others have pointed out.
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Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by geon on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:06PM (#13195295)
Swedish has a few redundant "ch" sounds; k, sj, sch, skj and tj.
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