Phonemic

All children in the PRC learn the Roman alphabet for phonemic pinyin.

As a nationalist feeling, real Japanese think that the heart of their language is the phonemic Kana, not the logographic Kanji.

English spelling is not phonemic.

A phonemic writing system as in Spanish or Greek is like musical notation.

I think that messy English spelling affects people's ability to think in an organized way. I am glad that I know the phonemic writing systems of Tagalog, Spanish, and Esperanto.

I have to use something like the International Phonetic Alphabet to describe my mother's foreign pronunciation of "raspberry." English isn't like Spanish or some phonemic language in writing.

My ancestral Sinitic topolect has a long history of being written in the Latin alphabet. This writing is quite phonemic. It is the Hokkien language.

As a writing system, English is neither phonemic like Spanish nor logographic like Chinese. Japanese has both phonemic and logographic in tandem. Other phonemic writings include Esperanto, Interlingua, Tagalog, Italian, Hawaiian, etc. Spanish writing with its accents is like musical notation, based on sounds. English writing is not this way, just hinting at the sound. I have not encountered a linguistics term that applies to the English way.

As a Filipino child, once I knew the fundamentals of Tagalog orthography, I could then spell any Tagalog word from just the sound. Learning English in tandem, I thought that it was cumbersome to be obliged to memorize the spelling of each word, as English spelling was not phonemic, unlike Tagalog.

In terms of phonemic length, a mora is equivalent to the duration of a short vowel.