What is Orthographic depth?
'''Orthographic depth''' is how much one-to-one relationship there is between the sounds of a [[language]] and the [[Letter|letters]] used to write them, or how much a word is spelled the way it sounds. Writing systems with a close one-to-one relationship between sounds and letters are called orthographically shallow writing systems. This includes the [[Spanish alphabet]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[kana]], the [[Finnish alphabet]], the [[Turkish alphabet]], and the [[Italian alphabet]]. In these languages, it is easy to figure out how to speak these languages simply by reading them. Writing systems with little one-to-one relationship between sounds and letters are called orthographically deep writing systems. These would include the [[English alphabet]], [[French alphabet]], [[Mongolian script]], and [[Thai script]]. [[Category:Spelling]]