The only language without an alphabet

>the only language without an alphabet
What the FUCK is their problem?

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is that china or japan

It’s technically the same word in both languages but I’m referring to Chinese here. At least Japan has kana which is a form of alphabet

Laos. First Laotian

Lay Ocean? Which ocean?

Chinese. Traditional on left, simplified on right.
Japan has an alphabet (or whatever it's technically called when a symbol represents a consonant-syllable combination), they just use Chinese characters along with it.

Chinese could just be written in pinyin (alphabet) but they don't want to. They'll try to justify it by talking about homophones but that could be fixed by irregular spelling and context. It's really cultural and difficulty of making a massive change.

>what is literally any indian or southeast asian language
>what is arabic
abugidas and abjads aren't alphabets the same way syllabaries and logographic systems aren't

But that isn’t the point user. The problem with Chinese is that you can’t sound out the words like other languages
Imo it’d look really ugly if they switched to the latin alphabet. Japan had the best approach with the mixed homegrown syllable/kanji system

>Chinese could just be written in pinyin (alphabet) but they don't want to. They'll try to justify it by talking about homophones but that could be fixed by irregular spelling and context. It's really cultural and difficulty of making a massive change.
its a part of their culture (not that an anglo would understand this) and provides a minor roadblock to keep western degeneracy out of their country.

Oh I fully agree it would be terrible to drop hanzi in favour of pinyin. I just find that Chinese tend to try to justify by utility, rather than just being "no they look better and it's our culture".
I pity the Vietnamese for having their mess of a language instead of using their adapted Chinese characters.

not to mention that dialects would have to spell everything differently, whereas with characters they can still be understood by all.

>The problem with Chinese is that you can’t sound out the words like other languages
Chinese characters have phonetic components that indicate reading.

That's pretty irrelevant. Almost everyone at least understands Mandarin, and most electronic Chinese input uses pinyin (so Mandarin pronunciation) anyways.

But teaching mandarin in school is cultural genocide.

sometimes, its a gamble to pronounce characters based on radicals

>I only speak English
>Here is my opinion on Asian writing systems that I don't have any clue how to use

Notice how literally everyone in this thread is an Anglophone!!

It's a million times more consistent than English and a shitload of people learn English.

wowow topic changer, i was just cautioning

>topic changer
It was a relevant point of comparison because as native English speakers, we are generally ignorant of just how wildly inconsistent the language is and how much foreigners struggle to learn correct pronunciations. A foreigner can spend a decade learning Mandarin and sound reasonably native, baring accent. Very few people can do this with English.
Yet it is often than the English speaking natives are the ones commenting on how "character" languages would be better off if they adopted a more English approach to their written languages.

"Chữ Nôm" is a horrible system that's both unfit for Vietnamese and Chinese language. Hell, even the Chinese script itself doesn't fit vernacular Chinese. Pic rel try to completely abolish Chinkrunes, symplify Chu Nom and add a syllabic script that's more suited our did but the king rejected it and France invaded

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Great point. I wonder how much of this is because China was historically an empire comprised of many, many kingdoms and ethnic groups and so relied on a script that conveyed meaning rather than pronunciation.

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100% desu. “China” as we know it was unified under Qin which standardized the writing system across all of its former kingdoms. Then Han cemented it for good which is why it’s called Han characters.
It was a really good way to keep an empire together and sinicize outsiders, but perhaps not as intuitive as an alphabet. But now that Mandarin is the official standard, imo they could benefit from modernizing the language for a global economy.

>tl;dr Chinese isn't as hard as you think.

There is not need to change it because everyone can read it in China. For trade, english is enough.

Imo creating a better alphabetized system is more important. I personally like the Wade-Giles system.

>I personally like the Wade-Giles system.

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you alphabet looks like shit

Millions to billions of people can use it now so they ain't gonna change it and forget how to read their ancestors script.

They only wanted to change in the past coz of literacy issues but that has been resolved now.

We East Asian didnot give in to white cock
I take proud of it
But if we were cycled , we could've been good at English more than now

Chu Nom was infinitely better than that French/Portuguese abomination shite they use now.

The one on the right is Chinese after it's been simplified.

Japan never really had a round of serious simplification, so often times Japanese characters will have more strokes to them for the equivalent Chinese character.

It's more aesthetic lol

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Japan is better off not learning English anyways.
Lotta good it did Korea to be better at English and better at getting caught up in meaningless bullshit from the other side of the planet.

>he doesn't know about latinxua xin wenz

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Do you think the mainland will make traditional characters official again? It’s an incredibly beautiful script imo and in the digital age there’s less need to write by hand. Plus I hear most mainlanders already know how to read traditional anyway.

fucking hell this shit is a challenge to read, i love how it reflects the old accent though. still better than wade giles.

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Who cares?

lmao does vietnamese really have a writing system named "taking a piss" in khmer?