language with least homophones

Lobo   Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:12 pm GMT
Gur: «pain - pains -peint - peints - pin - pins - peins
saint coeur - saints coeurs - cinq heures
sein - seins - saint - saints - ceint - ceints - seing - seings - sain - sains
hareng - harengs - à rang - à rangs
ai - aie - aies - ait - aient - es - est - ais - haie - haies
au - aux - eau - eaux - haut - hauts
c'est - s'est - sait - sais - saie - saies
car - cars - quart - quarts
cent - cents - s'en - sang - sangs - sens - sent - c'en - sans
compte - comptes - conte - contes - comte - comtes
con - cons - qu'on
cour - cours - court - courts
su - sus - sue - sues

... + many, many, MANY more. French is the homophone champion.»

Évidemment, en comptant le pluriel de chaque mot.
curious   Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:12 am GMT
FRench doean't even distinguish plurals most of the time, it's really an extremely simplified language. what other languages don't distinguish plurals orally? (Chinese, Indonesian??)
K. T.   Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:12 am GMT
Japanese has a huge number of homophones. I used to wish that I could see the Kanji above people when they spoke, lol.
@Lobo   Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:34 pm GMT
<<Évidemment, en comptant le pluriel de chaque mot. >>
why shouldn't plurals count?
Woozle   Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:00 am GMT
because plurals are marked as such by articles