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Chinese writing is phonetic, just not for your first 1000-2000 characters.

These are all pronounced "ding": 丁 订 盯 顶 钉, because they all have that T-like phonetic component.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, is at once phonetic and syllabic.

[1]In IPA, the standard phonetic alphabet, that sound is notated by "" instead.

This seems like it could actually be a real improvement on written Latin if it adopted a real phonetic alphabet.

Finnish language is notoriously hard to learn, but Finnish written language is very regular and phonetic.

Machine translation would make you perfectly legible to the non-phonetically-literate, and the vastly improved typing speed would more than make up for any minor hiccups.

Each "symbol" represents a syllable, but each sub-symbol represents a particular sound in the syllable; and each sub-sub-symbol encodes phonetic information about how it should be pronounced.

When written Chinese was simplified there was a short-lived movement to move towards non-logographic system called Bopomofo or Zhuyin Fuhao which has the cool aspect of still looking non-Western, but being a phonetic system with unambiguous "spelling".

Now, based on linguistic history and French pronunciation norms, you claim it is more appropriate to conclude that all of these other words have implied "D's" than to conclude that Django has a silent "D".You might be right that the pronunciation of James with a phonetic /d/ sound is a historical oddity, but it doesn't make your conclusions any more valid.