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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.




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