Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson

Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson

A mixed system: Japanese writing

Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson

Geoffrey Sampson [+-]
University of South Africa
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University and a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of South Africa. His most recent book is Grammar Without Grammaticality (2014, with Anna Babarczy).

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This chapter examines how the Japanese, having adopted Chinese script during their encounter with Chinese civilization, then made a shift to adapt it to a language that was unrelated to Chinese. However, unlike the Koreans, the Japanese never made a clean break to a different kind of script with the result that Japanese is complex, mixed system, partly logographic and partly phonographic.

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Sampson, Geoffrey . A mixed system: Japanese writing. Writing Systems - Second edition. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 208-232 Jan 2015. ISBN 9781781791042. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=22722. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.22722. Jan 2015

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