Re: Divergent Scripts
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 31, 2002, 11:56 |
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Christopher Wright writes:
> Arthaey Angosii sekalge:
> >I want one of the scripts to remain alphabetic, but I want the
> >second script to be like Chinese
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> That's difficult. Chinese was pictographic and became a syllabary. I see
Really? When did Chinese script become a syllabary? (Other than in
Japan*, etc.) It still looks logographic to me. ;-)
* And even there, kanji remain in use alongside the kana.
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