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by sauropterygia 5y ago
I suggest you read this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_kana_orthography It explains the shifts in pronunciantion in Japanese, making old Japanaese kana ortography differ from actual pronunciations, as
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by sauropterygia 5y ago
Cool link. さ is sometimes written with the parts joined, as an inverted ち: https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000217370013-jmqo19-t240x240.j... ゆ sometimes has the last stroke forming a loop: https://yu-yu1126.net&#x2
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by sauropterygia 5y ago
It's not pronounced as 'yen' anymore, but it was in the past. Some of the historical kana that are not commonly used anymore, such as ゐ、ゑ used to express sounds that are not distinguished anymore, but were retained in histori
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by sauropterygia 5y ago
> It was rotated 90 degrees probably for no other reason than because it works well alongside vertical Chinese Chinese (and Japanese and Korean), when written vertically, the collums are written right to left. In the Mongolian script, th
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by sauropterygia 5y ago
The same way Japanese is not a 'pure' syllabary (or moraic) script, as there are 1 mora syllables written with more than 1 symbol in an alphabet like fashion, such as しゃ (shi + small a = sha) or more recently ファ (fu + small a = fa
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by sauropterygia 5y ago
Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese Characters (as used in the Korean language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja Are you sure you did not mean "Japanese kanji and kana", or "Japanese hiragana and kat
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by sauropterygia 5y ago
There are alphabets not derived from Greek (but stil on the Phoenician/Egyptian family): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script htt
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by sauropterygia 7y ago
"Today, Kaoru Akagawa uses Kana, a mostly forgotten script traditionally used by Japanese women, in her art" "Yet as the centuries passed, and the authorities began culling what they saw as superfluous letters, over 90% of Ka