No natural languages use strictly one character for every single phonetic sound
Is it true that no natural languages use strictly one character for every single phonetic sound?
This is a basic linguistic fact about writing systems and phonology; natural languages and their orthographies do not feature a strict one-to-one mapping where every single phonetic sound is represented by one and only one unique character.
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The claim refers to a fundamental linguistic property concerning the mismatch between phonemes and graphemes across natural human languages, which is trivially observable and well-established without requiring specific study citations.
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The claim refers to a fundamental linguistic property concerning the mismatch between phonemes and graphemes across natural human languages, which is trivially observable and well-established without requiring specific study citations.
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