Orthographic Rules in some alphabets in the world
Why spelling rules are important? Source:Wikimedia Commons License: Public Domain Image View License Details: Click Here Each language may make rules governing the relationship between letters and phonemes, but, according to the language, they may or may not be consistently followed. In a perfectly phonological Alphabet , the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word by its spelling. However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems and writing systems have been borrowed for languages that were not designed, so that the degree to which letters of an Alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. Languages may fail to achieve one-to-one relationship between letters and sounds in any ...