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>Korea used to use Chinese characters too, they eventually (mostly) dropped them in favor of something simpler. Another example: Vietnamese swapped from using
by Aerroon 3y ago
>Korea used to use Chinese characters too, they eventually (mostly) dropped them in favor of something simpler.
Another example: Vietnamese swapped from using a modified Chinese script to a (modified?) Latin script.
- walthamstow 3y agoAnd on the other end of Asia, Turkey changed from Arabic script to a version of Latin in the 1920s, one of Ataturk's big reforms.
- dontlaugh 3y agoThe phonetics of Turkic languages are pretty close to Latin languages, though.