Re:English is weirdly different from other languages
by yread on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:32AM
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Lots of languages have them but their wikipedias don't have that article: French, Swedish, Arabic, Dutch, Turkish, Czech, Latin, Italian, Spanish. Surprisingly even languages with orthographic depth of 1 have them
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/heteronym-homograph....
Re:English is weirdly different from other languages
by Mithaldu on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:51PM
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To be a little more exact: Have large amounts of heteronyms to have them be common and not strange exceptions.
Re:English is weirdly different from other languages
by yongjik on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:46PM
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English spelling is horrible, but I feel that the number of English heteronyms is not notably high, especially considering the state of the spelling system.
I think heteronyms are bound to arise in most languages with Latin-based orthography, because they tend to borrow words from other Latin-alphabet-based languages without changing spelling. Some words are bound to collide with an existing word with the same spelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
Note the article only exists in five languages.