Comment by umanwizard
1 year ago
Then why are both English and Latin represented with Latin characters despite having a completely different phoneme inventory?
1 year ago
Then why are both English and Latin represented with Latin characters despite having a completely different phoneme inventory?
Because one is distant ancestor of the other...? It never adopted writing system from outside. The written and spoken systems co-evolved from a clean slate.
That’s not true. English is not a descendant of Latin, and the Latin alphabet was adopted from the outside, replacing Anglo-Saxon runes (also called the Futhorc script).
Just like kanji are not native to Japanese.