Phonemic orthography
A phonemic orthography is an orthography in which the graphemes correspond consistently to the language's phonemes, or more generally to the language's diaphonemes.
For a systemic analyis of the phoneme/grapheme correspondence, Petr Sgall distinguishes two conditions, both of which are to be satisfied for a phonemic orthography:
- in any context, a given grapheme is pronounced as the same phoneme
- in any context, a given phoneme is written with the same grapheme