> Honest question, why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing? I wanted to link an article written by a linguist, but I couldn't find it.

> Honest question, why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing? I wanted to link an article written by a linguist, but I couldn't find it. One of the hurdles would be tones: in order to express them, one would have to use plenty of diacritics and westerners would not be able to pronounce them correctly anyway.