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Using only orthographic features to identify a language

Using only orthographic features to identify a language

Tim Gorichanaz
Sep 27, 2013
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As I talked about in an earlier post, the Latin alphabet is now used to represent more languages than any other script system. But the Latin alphabet doesn't have a character for every sound in the world; it was created to represent Latin, and it's been adapted somewhat since then, but there are still plenty of natural language sounds out there that hav…

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