Hello John,
>> Russian orthography is pretty *phonemic*, excluding historic forms such
>> as the -ogo genitive or the soft sign with the 2nd person singular of the
>> verb. Most accent-counting languages tend to reduce sounds rather
>> heavily in nonstressed syllables, however, and in those cases a
>> phonemic orthography doesn't help a lot.
JC> I take it to be rather morphophonemic, much like German orthography.
Yep. Russian phonetists usually call "phonemes" what Western
phonetists call "morphonemes", so they have no problem with calling
Russian orthography _phonemic_.
-- Anatoly Vorobey, my journal (in Russian): http://www.livejournal.com/users/avva/ mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton
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