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>Fictional or invented scripts 

Even a "fictional" script is real in a certain sense. Some people could write letters 
in Tengwar. But those same people could also use Latin (or whatever other) characters 
to write that letter.

Invented scripts include:

1. Hangul -- tell this to my Korean friends
2. Hiragana -- tell this to my Japanese friends
3. Cyrillic -- tell it to the Russians, Ukrainians, etc.
4. the Cherokee script -- tell it to the Cherokees

All four are in Unicode, in Plane 0. And why not?


I wonder: why aren't languages with simple syllabic structures written in hiragana? It 
seems to be built for them. Is Japanese the world's only language that uses hiragana? 
I think katakana is used for Ainu, but is that it for katakana (i.e. Japanese and Ainu 
being the only 2 languages that use it)?
I have heard that in Chinese in one area (I forget), some Japanese loanwords are 
written with the original hiragana. I have no evidence to confirm or deny this. It 
seems that my rule (if you see even one hiragana, you are reading Japanese) might have 
exceptions. But I doubt it does.

By "invented", do you really mean "invented before the year xxxx"?

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