(idea) by arj Sat Nov 25 2000 at 13:08:08
Used of writing systems: that encode sounds, rather than meaning. Most alphabetic scripts are cenemic, but the degree varies from language to language. English, because of its rather poor letter-to-sound-correspondence, is less cenemic than Finnish, which is almost audiovisally isomorphic.

See also: pleremic.

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