Timeline for answer to Did China ever consider a phonetic writing system? by Astor Florida
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| S Jun 18, 2018 at 16:28 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2018 at 9:03 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | The basic tenet of this question is, unfortunately, quite anachronistic and linguistically not very sound. Modern Mandarin (and other Chinese regiolects) are very phonotactically limited, allowing at most CVC syllables, but this question is about what happened in the earlier history of Chinese, and Chinese used to have plenty of consonant clusters and more distinct sounds. Old Chinese had at least CCVCC; Middle Chinese had 37 initials and nearly 100 finals. And languages with similar phonotactics (like Vietnamese, which allows at most CVC) are written phonetically with no problems. | |
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| S Jun 15, 2018 at 2:26 | history | suggested | lly | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Jiaolioa>Jiaoliao; correcting mistakes that misread Ho's book; correcting mistakes about Sin Wenz with source: see comments
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| Jun 13, 2018 at 22:18 | history | edited | Astor Florida | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2018 at 21:46 | history | answered | Astor Florida | CC BY-SA 4.0 |