I suggest you read this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_kana_orthography It explains the shifts in pronunciantion in Japanese, making old Japanaese kana ortography differ from actual pronunciations, as…
Cool link. さ is sometimes written with the parts joined, as an inverted ち: https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000217370013-jmqo19-t240x240.j... ゆ sometimes has the last stroke forming a loop:…
It's not pronounced as 'yen' anymore, but it was in the past. Some of the historical kana that are not commonly used anymore, such as ゐ、ゑ used to express sounds that are not distinguished anymore, but were retained in…
> It was rotated 90 degrees probably for no other reason than because it works well alongside vertical Chinese Chinese (and Japanese and Korean), when written vertically, the collums are written right to left. In the…
The same way Japanese is not a 'pure' syllabary (or moraic) script, as there are 1 mora syllables written with more than 1 symbol in an alphabet like fashion, such as しゃ (shi + small a = sha) or more recently ファ (fu +…
Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese Characters (as used in the Korean language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja Are you sure you did not mean "Japanese kanji and kana", or "Japanese hiragana and katakana"? Also on…
There are alphabets not derived from Greek (but stil on the Phoenician/Egyptian family): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script…
"Today, Kaoru Akagawa uses Kana, a mostly forgotten script traditionally used by Japanese women, in her art" "Yet as the centuries passed, and the authorities began culling what they saw as superfluous letters, over 90%…
I suggest you read this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_kana_orthography It explains the shifts in pronunciantion in Japanese, making old Japanaese kana ortography differ from actual pronunciations, as…
Cool link. さ is sometimes written with the parts joined, as an inverted ち: https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000217370013-jmqo19-t240x240.j... ゆ sometimes has the last stroke forming a loop:…
It's not pronounced as 'yen' anymore, but it was in the past. Some of the historical kana that are not commonly used anymore, such as ゐ、ゑ used to express sounds that are not distinguished anymore, but were retained in…
> It was rotated 90 degrees probably for no other reason than because it works well alongside vertical Chinese Chinese (and Japanese and Korean), when written vertically, the collums are written right to left. In the…
The same way Japanese is not a 'pure' syllabary (or moraic) script, as there are 1 mora syllables written with more than 1 symbol in an alphabet like fashion, such as しゃ (shi + small a = sha) or more recently ファ (fu +…
Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese Characters (as used in the Korean language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja Are you sure you did not mean "Japanese kanji and kana", or "Japanese hiragana and katakana"? Also on…
There are alphabets not derived from Greek (but stil on the Phoenician/Egyptian family): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script…
"Today, Kaoru Akagawa uses Kana, a mostly forgotten script traditionally used by Japanese women, in her art" "Yet as the centuries passed, and the authorities began culling what they saw as superfluous letters, over 90%…