Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??

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to alphabetic writing, which most written languages have
done without loss of clarity or ease of writing.
Name five.

I do not know all the ancient languages; I do not know
of too many modern ones which did this, although Hawaiian
is one such, and I believe Korean as well.

WHAT on earth are you accusing Hawaiian and Korean of having done?

There was written Hawaiian (not as clear as we would like
it) on bark cloth before European contact. It became
replaced by the use of the Latin alphabet.

There is ancient Korean, similar to Chinese characters.
This has now been almost completely replaced by a well-
designed alphabet, in which the printed characters are
formed from two to four letters.

But Greek went form Linear B to alphabetic, and Philistine
went from Linear A to alphabetic. Egyptian went through
stages, but ended up as the alphabetic Coptic.

See previous posting. WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THIS STUFF?????

The oldest Greek writings we have are in Linear B.

The later ones are alphabetic.

Similarly, Coptic is a direct descendent of ancient
Egyptian, which was used by Champollion to decode
Egyptian, using the Rosetta Stone.

Idiographic writing was sufficiently well known in the
ancient Middle East that the Semites must have had some
such before introducing the alphabet. The same would
hold for the Persian and Indian languages; they would
have had some form of writing before introducing the
alphabet.

MY GOD, YOU ARE IGNORANT.

Do you think there was NO writing of these languages,
which ended up alphabetic, before the alphabet was
used for them?

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