Letters That Don't Make Any Sense

Hi, NoNukes.Swedish uses "kj" or "tj" for that "ch" sound. The letter "c" is still used for both soft ("s") and hard ("k") sounds.Mandarin Chinese uses "ch" in the modern romanization, but "q" represents a very similar (unaspirated) sound before soft vowels. The letter "c"---by itself---is used to represent a "ts" sound.

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Hi, Jon. I think most of the Germanic orthographies do. Danish/Norwegian maybe doesn't.Swedish does, though. And, both "c" and "k" can be used for hard "k" sounds before hard vowels, but diverge before soft vowels: "k" is pronounced "sh" and "c" is pronounced "s" (as written in English) before soft vowels. They also use "ck" for a hard "k" sound in some words (e.g., flicka, "girl").Mandarin Pinyin does, too.

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