How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
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A fascinating story of writing across cultures and timeWhile other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese.
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