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Orthographic principles. When writing Finnish, the foundational principle is that each letter stands for one sound and each sound is always represented by the same letter, within the bounds of a single morpheme. The most notable exception to this rule is the velar nasal [ŋ], which does not have an allotted letter.
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph or digram (from the Ancient Greek: δίς dís, "double" and γράφω gráphō, "to write") is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
The Ukrainian orthography ( Ukrainian: Український правопис, romanized : Ukrainskyi pravopys) is the orthography for the Ukrainian language, a system of generally accepted rules that determine the ways of transmitting speech in writing. Until the last quarter of the 14th century Old East Slavic orthography was widespread. [1]
A common variant is the tetragraph dsch . It is used in Juǀʼhoan for the prevoiced aspirated affricate /d͡tsʰ/ . dsj is used for foreign loan words with /dʒ/ Norwegian. Sometimes the digraph dj is used. dtc is used for the voiced palatal click /ᶢǂ/ in Naro .
Orthographic depth. The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter – phoneme correspondence. It depends on how easy it is to predict the pronunciation of a word based on its spelling: shallow orthographies are easy to pronounce based on the written ...
Prior the 1981 Gaelic Orthographic Convention (GOC), Scottish Gaelic traditionally used acute accents on a, e, o to denote close-mid long vowels, clearly graphemically distinguishing è /ɛː/ and é /eː/, and ò /ɔː/ and ó /oː/. However, since the 1981 GOC and its 2005 and 2009 revisions, standard orthography only uses the grave accent.
The Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁaːt fyːɐ̯ ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʁɛçtˌʃʁaɪbʊŋ], " Council for German Orthography " or " Council for German Spelling " [1] ), or RdR, is the main international body regulating Standard High German orthography . With its seat being in Mannheim, Germany, the RdR was formed in ...
