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		cyberax on April 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom... Phonetics don't really tell you the tone. Also, there are tons and tons of exceptions.

lIl-IIIl on April 22, 2023 [–]

Similar to English and other less-than-perfect phonetic languages? Or worse?

The_Colonel on April 22, 2023 | [–]

That brongs up the question? Are there actually alphabet based languages which are worse than English at pronunciation - transcription correspondence? The few I know are all better.

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