Is Latin alphabet enough for a modern Indo-European language?
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Auxiliary Language like Indo-European?
It is obviously not the most important problem an IAL faces when
pretending to be implemented in the real world, but if the Latin
alphabet is not enough to support 23 official languages in the
European Union, how could it be for a world's language?
I believe that, although difficult, it is not impossible to think
about Indo-European being the same for all, but having different
writing systems - like Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Devanāgarī,
Hiragana,... -, always maintaining a vowel- or syllable-based
relationship, i.e., not based on whole words like a Kanji system.
Besides, learning different alphabets is not that difficult, and it
could boost the teaching and learning possibilities of Indo-European
as second language everywhere, being only a handicap for foreigners to
understand some local writings when traveling abroad.
On the other hand, English is already widely taught at school, and it
is written using the Latin alphabet, so it should'nt be that difficult
to keep it as simple as we designed it...