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Japan is the only culture I know of with three or four concurrent systems in use. China could be said to have two. Taiwan could be said to have three, if you co
by contingencies 4y ago
Japan is the only culture I know of with three or four concurrent systems in use. China could be said to have two. Taiwan could be said to have three, if you could bopomofo.
- samus 4y agoJapanese could get rid of either Hiragana or Katakana if they really wanted, since both of them are fully functional syllabaries. But in Taiwan, the choice between Bopomofo, Pinyin, and their local variant of Pinyin has political significance because it is taken to be reflective of their stance to the Mainland.