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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 15:55:57 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   • robryk

   @digastricus @robryk

   Id love to ubderstand how that developed. Importing a writing system but not a language only seems possible at all with logograms which is kinda cool.

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     robryk@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 17:30:12 JST robryk

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     • digastricus

     @freemo @digastricus

     Huh? Isn't that the case with all languages that use Latin alphabet but aren't romance?

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     • digastricus

     @robryk

     No, letters arent a writi g system a writing system would be the meaning of the words, the grammer, everything but the sounds.

     In logographic languages the same or similar symbol has entierly different spoken words attached to it but the symbol would mean the same.

     In a phonographic language that cant be possible since the letters represent soubds so the spoken language is explicitly linked to the written.

     @digastricus

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     • digastricus

     @robryk @digastricus

     Also im not sure thisnis even accurate of the script. The latin script evolved from a common rood language (indo european). While it is true the germanic language branched off before the evolution into latin script, and lost the indo european script and was largely oral, it readopted latin which was related to its earlier common script. Id imagine this or similar is true for some of the other language families. However cyrilic never adoped latin and is also from thr indo-european root, it evolved seperately from the common root script.

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     robryk@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 23:44:06 JST robryk

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     • digastricus

     @freemo @digastricus

     Then Japan didn't really acquire the writing system from China. The grammar is iiuc very different, and at some points in history characters were imported for the pronunciation, ignoring their meaning.

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     • digastricus

     @robryk @digastricus

     Yea im clueless on the asian side of this equation sadly