Re: Alphabets with logographic symbols
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2009, 20:30 |
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Sumerian/Akkadian shared that sort of relationship, if I'm not wrong.
Akkadian borrowed the Sumerian phonetic writing system and adopted the
Sumerian spellings of some common words as logograms pronounced in the
Akkadian way, as though we pronounced "soleil" [sVn].
At least that's IIRC.
Eugene
2009/1/30 Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
> I wrote:
> > Are there ANADEWs for alphabetic writing
> > systems with a sprinkling of logographs thrown in?
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> Not counting Japanese -- having most content words be kanji is way
> more than a "sprinkling" in my opinion! :)
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> AA
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