Re: Optimum number of symbols
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 19:36 |
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Raymond Brown scripsit:
> All written systems, except purely logographic systems such as traditional
> Chinese and ancient Sumerian, either contain large phonetic element (e.g.
> Akkadian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, modern Japanese) or are, in
> theory, entirely phonetic (i.e. syllabaries and alphabets).
Chinese also contains a large phonetic element, though 2000 years out of date.
For those who haven't seen it, http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
is recommended (lots of graphics, but they are small).
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