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The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil or Telugu, have a long history as a written language.
In Japanese a similar system plays a minor role in foreign borrowings; for example, [tu] is written [to]+ [u], and [ti] as [te]+ [i]. Paleohispanic semi-syllabaries behaved as a syllabary for the stop consonants and as an alphabet for the rest of consonants and vowels.
Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary.
The languages of East Asia form a complex mosaic. Most languages spoken in the cultural areas of China, Korea, and Japan fall into two large language families that are structurally very different. These two families are the Sino-Tibetan family and the Ural-Altaic family.
15 paź 2020 · Chinese, Japanese, and Kor ean Writing. Systems: All East-Asian but Different. Scripts. Abstract The three East-Asian scripts—Chinese (characters and Pinyin), Japanese. (multi-scripts), and...
A Brief History of Japanese. Relationship to other languages. Japanese vocabulary. Samples of spoken and sung Japanese. Written Japanese: Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, Rōmaji. Japanese phrases (Useful) Japanese Phrases (Silly) Japanese numbers. Colours in Japanese. Time in Japanese. Family words in Japanese. Tower of Babel in Japanese.
Chinese writing, basically logographic writing system, one of the world’s great writing systems. Like Semitic writing in the West, Chinese script was fundamental to the writing systems in the East.
