Re: Divergent Scripts

Tim May scripsit:

> Really?  When did Chinese script become a syllabary? (Other than in
> Japan*, etc.)  It still looks logographic to me. ;-)
It's morpho-syllabic: there is one representation for each syllable
with a particular meaning.  If it were really logographic, there would be
a different character for every word, which is certainly not the case.
Most words are written with at least two characters.

See http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm .

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