Philipp Reichmuth scripsit:
> Russian orthography is pretty *phonemic*, excluding historic forms such
> as the -ogo genitive or the soft sign with the 2nd person singular of the
> verb. Most accent-counting languages tend to reduce sounds rather
> heavily in nonstressed syllables, however, and in those cases a
> phonemic orthography doesn't help a lot.
I take it to be rather morphophonemic, much like German orthography.
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