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That's essentially what Korean did. They replaced everything with their own morphophonemic orthography. But even then they still use Hanja to disambiguate some
by angelsl 7y ago
That's essentially what Korean did. They replaced everything with their own morphophonemic orthography.
But even then they still use Hanja to disambiguate sometimes.
- bgee 7y agoI was not even talking about Hangul, the point I made was on using a Latin alphabet. If we are revamping the whole writing system, why reinvent the wheel if the main goal is "efficiency"? edit: obviously Kana has already been created
- redthrow 7y agoThere have been notable Japanese people who argued that the Japanese writing system should adopt Latin alphabets since ~150 years ago. https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E5%AD%97%E8%AB%96 https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%... I'm personally fine with both romaji and kana (learning kana is not a big cognitive burden anyways). I'm even fine with kanji (or Latin or anything) if people learn it voluntarily. What's not ok is kids being forced to learn them in school.