How related are writing and speech?
It can be difficult for us anglophones to imagine that speech and writing could have little or nothing to do with each other. After all, our writing system more or less corresponds with our pronunciation. But to illustrate the possibilities, let's consider three historical cases: Latin around the year 800 AD, modern Arabic, and Chinese.
Latin Because of …
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