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7/1/2025, 1:18:10 AM
>>509168664
Japanese at least has an escape hatch (phonetic alphabets). Chinese never had one and they instead had to import roman letters and invent pinyin.
Historically, they did have a method of correlating pronunciation of letters starting from a small "bootstrap set" of letters (see 反切 fanqie). But this wasn't really used and most mainland Chinese unironically believe that pinyin was the first phonetic system.
>>509168794
Here's a Korean newspaper from 60 years ago.
Japanese at least has an escape hatch (phonetic alphabets). Chinese never had one and they instead had to import roman letters and invent pinyin.
Historically, they did have a method of correlating pronunciation of letters starting from a small "bootstrap set" of letters (see 反切 fanqie). But this wasn't really used and most mainland Chinese unironically believe that pinyin was the first phonetic system.
>>509168794
Here's a Korean newspaper from 60 years ago.
7/1/2025, 1:18:10 AM
>>22883313
Japanese at least has an escape hatch (phonetic alphabets). Chinese never had one and they instead had to import roman letters and invent pinyin.
Historically, they did have a method of correlating pronunciation of letters starting from a small "bootstrap set" of letters (see 反切 fanqie). But this wasn't really used and most mainland Chinese unironically believe that pinyin was the first phonetic system.
>>22883317
Here's a Korean newspaper from 60 years ago.
Japanese at least has an escape hatch (phonetic alphabets). Chinese never had one and they instead had to import roman letters and invent pinyin.
Historically, they did have a method of correlating pronunciation of letters starting from a small "bootstrap set" of letters (see 反切 fanqie). But this wasn't really used and most mainland Chinese unironically believe that pinyin was the first phonetic system.
>>22883317
Here's a Korean newspaper from 60 years ago.
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