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| ULA-2015    || q || j || k || - || x || c || y || ts || dz || tc || dy || ctc
| ULA-2015    || q || j || k || - || x || c || y || ts || dz || tc || dy || ctc
| better match with languages that use /q/ but not /ç/ (compare Turkic variant)
| better match with languages that use /q/ but not /ç/
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| ULA-2015-turkic || - || j || k || q || x || c || y || ts || dz || tc || dy || ctc
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| English      || - || y || q,c,k || - || kh || sh || zh ||  ||  || ch || j || shch
| English      || - || y || q,c,k || - || kh || sh || zh ||  ||  || ch || j || shch

Revision as of 2016-02-16T06:24:43

Some letters of the Latin script represent the same sound in languages that use the Latin alphabet and have more than 100 million speakers (e.g. English, Spanish, French, German, Indonesian). Some other letters do not. Below is a selection of sounds that is represented differently.

/çjkqxʃʒ/ in different alphabets
Alphabet /ç/ /j/ /k/ /q/ /x/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /ts/ /dz/ /tʃ/ /dʒ/ /ʃtʃ/ Comment
IPA ç j k q x ʃ ʒ ts dz ʃtʃ
ULA-1994 c j k - x q y ts dz tq dy qtq differences to IPA minimized, c is graphically close to ç. Only larger difference is in /ʃ/ and /ʒ/.
ULA-2015 q j k - x c y ts dz tc dy ctc better match with languages that use /q/ but not /ç/
English - y q,c,k - kh sh zh ch j shch ng = /ŋ/
French - ? qu,c,k - - ch j ? ? ? gn = /ɲ/
Spanish - ? qu,k,c j,g ? ? ch ? ? ñ = /ɲ/
Portuguese - ? k,q - x ch,x j,g nh = /ɲ/
Italian - - c,ch,qu,k - - sc,sci - z z c,ci g,gi - gn = /ɲ/
German ch j k,ck,q - ch sch j/sch z,ts tsch dsch schtsch /ç/ and /x/ are allophones
Indonesian (1972 EYD) - y k - kh sy - ? ? c j ? ny = /ɲ/
Interlingua - - k,c,ch,q - - - j - dj - x=/ks/, y=/i/
Esperanto - j k - hx sx jx c dz cx gx sxcx
LFN - - c - - x j ts dz tx dj xtx
Uropi - j k - - c ʒ tc ctc
Slovio - j k - (h) sx zx c dz cx gx wx
Ido - y k,q - - - j c x = /ks/, /ɡz/
Novial - y k - - sh j ch x = /ks/
Pinyin - g,k h sh ts zh /ʃ/ is actually /ʂ/; x = /ɕ/
Turkish - y k ş j ts dz ç c