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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

As written language spread through existing spoken languages, changes are made to match the spoken sounds and languages that have different pronunciation requirements repurpose, drop, create, or modify characters to fit their phonetic needs.

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