Sunday, August 3, 2014

A brief history of the Japanese writing system

I was hoping that it would be a simpler, phonetic system that resulted.  But according to this Skritter post it appears that three systems are used (Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana).  The Chinese derived characters persist - there are 2,000 - 3,000 in common use. - gwc
A brief history of the Japanese writing system

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