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From: czervic@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher M. A. Zervic)
Subject: Re: languages with phonetic alphabets?
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tmoran@bix.com antau~nelonge skribis en sci.lang:
: My son asked if there are any languages where each letter of the
: alphabet has a single pronunciation.  Are there?

Esperanto has only 16 rules, one of them is every word is pronounced
exactly as it is spelt. Every letter makes only one sound, and every
sound has only one possible spelling.

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