On 10/16/10 5:12 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 16 October 2010 22:13, Jonathan S. Shapiro<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there a syllabic script (something similar to a kana) in China?
>
> AFAIK there is not and cannot because it would not make sense for Chinese.
Not true. There's pinyin which is an official phonetic script taught to
elementary school kids before hanzi are taught. By and large it uses
ASCII characters plus standard accents (for marking tone). I'm not too
familiar with the guts of Unicode encodings, but the only thing that
would possibly present any difficulties are the u/U +umlaut +accent
characters, or maybe the hachek accent if the Czech got screwed in the
Unicode lottery. I'd suspect these are all base plane though, given as
pinyin was designed in part to deal with transcribing Chinese languages
into roman text.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
I can't say how much pinyin is used outside of elementary school,
linguistics texts, signs for foreigners, etc though. Not very much I'd
wager.
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Live well,
~wren
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