How come we don’t have letters for all sounds?

For example, if you want to write in a dialect you always have problems, if there were more letters we could also write more sounds?

Asker: French, 60 years

Answer

We inherited our alphabet from the Romans. In Latin, as in current Italian, there are only 5 sounds, which could be represented with the five vowels aeio and u.

In many languages ​​and dialects, not just Dutch, there are more sounds. We try to represent these with the historical instrument, the Latin alphabet.

There is a “phonetic alphabet”. This has the ability to reproduce almost all current sounds. But it has almost no use outside the linguistic sciences. See also http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationaal_Fonetisch_Alfabet.

How come we don’t have letters for all sounds?

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