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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by Mediterraneo10 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:22AM (#16159296)
> Yeah, why not use the Slovene alphabet and add some carons to short vowels and be done?

Kazakh makes a phonemic distinction between [g] and [ɣ]. Slovene, and most European languages, doesn’t have that distinction and their writing systems are therefore not equipped to represent it.

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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by mc32 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:14PM (#16165416)
Huh. That's interesting. Do you know if that's positional? I.e. it's predictable? For example in English you know an "s" is /z/ when between voiced vowels, most of the time. Or OE "good" vs "geostran dag".

In any event, as per English, French, among others, an alphabet does not have to orthographically represent the phonemes exactly.

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