Mario Mendes wrote:

>> Try (almost?) any Romance language. In Portuguese, for example, about
>> the only letter that doesn't have a clear (and simple) pronunciation
>> rule is 'x' -- and it's not that frequent. I think at least Spanish and
>> Italian are similar in that respect. 

> Portuguese, spanish and Italian being languages that came out of latin,
> hence the similarities.

Yes, that's what "Romance language" means. I always thought it was "Roman
language", but it seems I was wrong. It may or may not be that this is
related to "language of romance" :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

There are others I'm not familiar with (Romanian, Catalan) and there is
French, of which I think it's not that simple in pronunciation (probably
due to the stronger influence from the northern European languages). 

Gerhard

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