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/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton
