Irish also has had a history of reforms for the last couple hundred years. The orthography up til then was meant to show the historical development of words and how they were pronounced. Words had become a jumble of letters often with no clear sense of which dialect they represented. 1922's collection of reforms was meant to simplify. It was made official in the 1937 consitution which also established Gaelic as the official language. In 2010 (I think) they started up a new effort to look at the spelling reforms again. Not sure what the status is right now. (The Wikipedia article doesn't mention the Irish spelling reforms and codification.)
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