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The answer is easy -- No, it won't be able to change and grow. Have been to more than one character museum where they show evolution of character. For most of
by innocenat 8y ago
The answer is easy -- No, it won't be able to change and grow.
Have been to more than one character museum where they show evolution of character. For most of the history you can see some change between 10-20 years, but it stays completely same for last 20 years or so.
- emodendroket 8y agoTwenty? I don't know what you mean. If you pick up a Japanese book published in 1960 the characters are the same ones they use now. Nobody was using bone script or anything.
- innocenat 8y agoI did not talk specifically about Japanese, and I don't think the OP did either. And I should clarify for that -- character mostly stop changing once printing press is introduced, and stop almost completely once digitization is completed. Of course common language get digitize long before, but all common language seems to have digitization completed 10-20 years ago.
- rspeer 8y agoThere are languages in India with tens of millions of speakers whose digital representations are still poorly implemented, partially because the speakers of those languages rely on English instead of their own language when using computers.
- robjan 8y agoYou are thinking about alphabet-based languages where the creation of a new word does not involve the creation of a new character. We are frequently creating new words which require "workarounds" (sometimes just using a romanisation) until it's properly encoded.
- emodendroket 8y agoWho are we here? The Japanese have a syllabary. Even the Chinese are, as far as I know, almost never creating new characters (when something new is called for, as far as I know, a soundalike old character is the most common solution).