Which language would have the hardest spelling bee?

English and Japanese are the most complicated/irregular writing systems afaik.
Why Tibetan? I didn't know about this. The spellings differ from the pronunciation? In South Asia only Bengali and Urdu have somewhat difficult spelling systems. Burmese is also said to have spellings that require memorisation.
How so? I thought Icelandic spelling was the most phonemic of the Scandinavian languages.

french maybe?

German, I assume?

>Why Tibetan?
A lot of words in Tibetan have 2-5 silent letters that aren't pronounced and the alphabet is very weird.

Hmm, I see. I was just reading about it. Even worse than English. :(

Alright, thanks Jow Forums it was one of those idle questions I always had for years

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They actually got their alphabet from Sanskrit lol.

Hardest: Thai
Easiest: Serbocroatian

We do have spelling bees as school tests.
There are three pairs of letters in Polish that sound the same but aren't interchangeable in writing (u/ó, h/ch, rz/ż) and people, especially kids, sometimes fuck them up.

Literally every time? Finnish doesn't have any exceptions to pronunciation rules?

Polish has always intimidated me.

>this is a foreign concept to Americans

that fucking language shouldn't be written in Latin alphabet

I'd say french.

Digraphs are so scary. I too get the shakes whenever I read "sh" or "ch".

Out of the major languages English is the only one that's stupid enough to not change the orthography of the words it steals

Not a foreign concept, I just think it's really cool. I like when languages follow their own rules.

>xidnaf
Thai really isn't so hard. English is much harder.

English has gone through more sound changes since it was written than Finnish has

youtube.com/watch?v=btn0-Vce5ug

I was going to do a vocaroo taking a piss on english speakers regarding their spanish accents but I hate my english accent.

No, our spelling makes sense and has almost no irregularities

But you can make up words like this:

Spellingspasticontestteilnehmerbefähigung.

looks normal to me.

Mine too.
Agreed. English is long due for a spelling reformation.

pretty much this

an attempt was made in the us a while ago. thats why some things are spelled differently here than in the uk. for example color vs colour, theatre vs theater, analogue vs analog etc

We literally reform our orthography every 50 years to restore spelling to reflect the pronunciation.

Brazil and Portugal appointed a joined commission to make changes and reform spelling across all of the lusophone world. Why can't America?

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Ours would suck we got FRENCH'D as hard as the anglos.

>Which language would have the hardest spelling bee?
French. There have been multiple moves from the Church and other authorities to re-Latinize the language, removing lots of Franconian words and most of all making the orthography a clusterfuck by forcing spellings to mimic Latin rather than fit the word's pronunciation. This contributes to giving French its very special aura and makes it a great language for literature, but also contributes to the number of working class French people who can't spell for shit on Facebook and other websites. It exacerbates class divide, if anything.

Because we don't have to because whatever we do is right and everybody else is backwards and wrong

>Why Tibetan?
Lots of silent letters and sometimes not even the correct letters

Only in overseas territories

For a foreigner it can be hard to know how words are spelled but for native speakers there's a bit of a pattern
It's not hard

Yeah no you're making it worse than it is

Average Facebook post in French.

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but i mean linguistically french is an appropriate language for a spelling bee, right

Yes. We don't really do spelling bees, but dictée(literally dictation) is a common type of test we have in French class, from elementary school to early middle school. Again, most students are terrible at this because of the factors I listed in my previous post: .
I'm in law school, and professors still complain about orthographic mistakes. It's that bad.

Franchement je suis d'accord, je ne veux pas être impoli mais je trouve que la qualité d'orthographie dans les sections commentaires francophones est pire que dans leurs homologues anglophones, mais peut-être c'est en raison de ma connaissance limitée de la langue.

Not at all

This.

>mais peut-être c'est en raison de ma connaissance limitée de la langue
Non, c'est parfaitement justifié étant donné que tu n'as pas fait une seule faute dans ton post. Le niveau de français de notre classe ouvrière est lamentable.

I also noticed, while lurking at French forums, that you really like to pick up on each other's spelling errors, even tiny ones, especially when the opponent is winning an argument it is common to pick on his grammar :D

Could use obsolete verb forms like imparfait du subjonctif. Those would be hard for everyone. Even though there is a pattern, still there are lots of sssssss to memorize.

but i can never remember if it is mita vittu or mitta vittua and where the umlaut goes so it is hard to even insult you properly

Welsh: youtube.com/watch?v=U-1SPdgcgeA

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
>The name has been alternately shortened (Llanfairpwll) and lengthened (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch)

They should have been reasonable like Balts, Slovaks and some Yugos and just adopt the Czech alphabet.

if you speak it though its not so hard

je n'ai aimer pas etudier la francais

Finnish language doesn't have umlauts.

Doesn't sound so much difficult.

>the hardest spelling bee
Try some Kabardian.

what? of course it does. maybe they don't call them that but still.

pourqui?
c'est agréable

>deutsche autisimus

>deutscher autismus

In linguistics they're called diacritics

Well, the -np- combo is sort of on the fence but it's the only one.

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Diactrics is a broader term. What do you call a double dot on top of a letter specifically

Diaresis

*diaeresis

Fancy! Sounds like something you can pick up from a crack whore :D

That could be a good way to look at it. Umlauts and diaresis are similar venereal diseases in how they enter the genitals but display different symptoms

Because no one cares