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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by DougBTX on Friday February 21, 2014 @12:47PM (#7278203)
> an alphabet has, by definition, a 1 to 1 correspondence between a single character and a sound.

Do any languages have an alphabet according to this definition?

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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by Sharlin on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:03PM (#7280512)
Finnish almost does. There are minor exceptions, though.
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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by anon4 on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:19PM (#7279841)
Cyrillic-using languages generally do.
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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by gurkendoktor on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:05AM (#7281634)
The 'o' in Russian is pronounced 'a' half of the time (non-scientific estimate). :(
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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by stcredzero on Friday February 21, 2014 @01:30PM (#7278492)
Korean?
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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by snogglethorpe on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:43PM (#7279957)
At the least, Korean has voiced-versus-non-voiced-depending-on-word-position changes, and IIRC there are other similar rules (about changing pronunciation in certain contexts) as well.
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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by alxndr on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:15PM (#7279821)
IIRC Hangul has some weird pronunciation quirks depending on where some letters are in a syllable.
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