From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Mon Aug 10 2009 - 15:19:36 CDT
Aviah Morag - TransLink wrote:
> Well, that's the thing. Think about this - there are plenty of
> languages which use the same (Latin) writing system, but nonetheless
> have little in common phonologically. The correspondence between
> letters and their sounds is not entirely coincidental, but I would be
> shocked if Korean speakers were now able to make sense of written
> Cia-Cia any more than French speakers are able to understand written
> Turkish.
Even if they use the Jamos with different values, i.e. if the phonology
is really different, what matters is that the syllable-structure should
be similar. Hangul is designed to handle a particular kind of syllable;
something with, say, too many consonants allowed in the coda could be a
problem.
Presumably, though, since this is being used, it must be usable, and
therefore I guess the syllable structures are close enough.
~mark
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