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It's not like the Chinese didn't know about alphabetic scripts. Alphabets predate Chinese writing. Chinese is written the way it is for roughly the same reason
by otabdeveloper4 4y ago
It's not like the Chinese didn't know about alphabetic scripts. Alphabets predate Chinese writing.
Chinese is written the way it is for roughly the same reasons why English doesn't use phonetic spelling.
- paulusthe 4y agoAlphabets do not predate Chinese writing. L
- otabdeveloper4 4y ago"Chinese writing" is clerical script and later. That's like a full 1000 years after the first Semitic scripts.