19. The system of claim 14 , wherein the mapping module is configured to carry out the comparison on a category-to-category basis by allotting respective score values to the category-by-category comparisons, the respective score values being aggregated to generate the scores.
14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the phonemes of the second language and the candidate mapping phonemes of the first language are represented as phonetic category vectors, whereby the mapping module is configured to subject respective vectors representative of phonetic categories of each the phoneme of the second language is subject to comparison with a set of phonetic category vectors representative of the phonetic categories of the candidate mapping phonemes in the first language.