Homophonic Quotients of Linguistic Free Groups: German, Korean, and Turkish

TL;DR

This paper extends the study of homophonic quotient groups to German, Korean, and Turkish, revealing linguistic and script system differences through group-theoretic analysis.

Contribution

It applies the homophonic quotient methodology to new languages, providing comparative insights into their phonetic and script system structures.

Findings

Differences in homophonic quotient groups across languages

Insights into language-specific pronunciation relations

Potential implications for linguistic and script system analysis

Abstract

In 1993, the homophonic quotient groups for French and English (the quotient of the free group generated by the French (respectively English) alphabet determined by relations representing standard pronunciation rules) were explicitly characterized [5]. In this paper we apply the same methodology to three different language systems: German, Korean, and Turkish. We argue that our results point to some interesting differences between these three languages (or at least their current script systems).