Phonetic here means that you can predict the pronunciation from the spelling, and predict the spelling from the pronunciation .........
2007-10-16 03:30:06 · 10 answers · asked by Washington 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Well, it certainly isn't English. Spanish is quite phonetic, so is Russian.
2007-10-16 03:32:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I studied French, it seemed to be a lot more phonetic than English (or American). It seemed thta I could predict a lot...I can still go thru a French book and read it pretty much correctly just from using the pronunciation I learned years ago.
2007-10-16 03:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by Annie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
italian.
japanese is almost "phonetic", except that you still have to learn Kanji!
russian does have a fair number of exceptions in which words are not pronounced as spelled.
forget about english. if english were phonetic, we wouldn't need "phonics"!
i can't think of any exceptions in spanish, so i think both italian and spanish are good phonetic languages (except for those sounds which have to be represented by more than one letter, although always consistently so...). interestingly enough, the vowel structures of italian and japanese are remarkably close, which makes it easier for a speaker of one to pronounce the other.
2007-10-16 03:33:19 · answer #3 · answered by smekkleysa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hungarian is phonetic
2007-10-16 04:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by You 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Russian
Korean
Arabic
Italian
Japanese (using the alphabet, not the kanji)
2007-10-16 03:33:26 · answer #5 · answered by Kate K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good ole' Spanish, where e is always a and i is always e!
2007-10-16 03:33:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hindi and sanskrit.
2007-10-16 03:48:32 · answer #7 · answered by Lunar 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
english
2007-10-16 03:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Japanese is about as phoenetic as it gets.
2007-10-16 03:32:45 · answer #9 · answered by 006 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know (no) what (wat) it means (meens). It's the secret (seekret) language, of the little people. (The Irish Little People)
2007-10-16 03:35:41 · answer #10 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋