Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 23, 2001, 13:20 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> And this is an easy version, because after all Greek is another alphabet,
> very like the English alphabet, whereas Chinese characters are nothing
> like the Japanese syllabary!
Well, not quite. The Japanese syllabries are derived from simplified
versions of the characters. For example, the character for "hand", read
_te_ in its kun-yomi, is the origin of both the katakana and hiragana
characters for "te".
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