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Download full textWilhelm, Christopher – 1992
A great deal of disagreement exists as to whether the writing systems of the Brahmi family of scripts from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent and the Hangul script of Korea should be classified as alphabets or syllabaries. Both have in common a mixture of syllabic and alphabetic characteristics that has spawned vigorous disagreement among…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Written Language
