Re: Kana, was re: CJKV ideographic, was Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit

From: Richard Cook (rscook@socrates.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 22:29:13 EST

All this talk of ideographs made me think that people on-list might
enjoy this (Acrobat 4) PDF:

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rscook/pdf/HanKana.fp3.pdf

It illustrates the evolution of the Hiragana and Katakana from Chinese
characters, with kaishu (simplified and traditional) and small seal
forms. There are some minor errors in it ... which I'll fix, if any one
can point them out :-)

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