Re: Orthography Question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 9, 1998, 3:28 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> The closest equivalent I can think of in any natlang is how
> Japanese uses katakana to represent foreign words (except for Chinese
> words borrowed long ago).
And _tabako_ (cigarettes), borrowed from Portuguese a few centuries ago,
it's now written in hiragana.
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