Phonemic orthography

A phonemic orthography is a writing system where there is a one-to-one relationship between graphemes in the written form and phonemes in the spoken form of a language. These are sometimes termed true alphabets, but they needn't be alphabetic, a syllabary could do just as well.

Commonly claimed examples include Georgian and Esperanto.

Creating a phonemic orthography for a language such as English would be impossible, as pronunciations differ far too much. Given a standard dialect of a language it is not too difficult to create one, but it is inevitable that with time pronunciations will drift and either the orthography will have to be reformed or it will become non-phonemic - this is what happened to English and French, for example.