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I don't know about Turkish, but German is not phonetically spelled.

Of course it is better than the mess English is, but there are still many exceptions, silent letters, dypthongs, etc.

For an almost phonetic language try Italian, for a completely phonetic one try Serbian with the Cyrillic script.



Interestingly enough English was phonemic during the Middle English stage (11th - 15th century)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography




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