That is a good question Josaiah! But... I don't know.
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| Author: | Josiah Mimetes [ November 30th, 2011, 1:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Characters Vs letters |
So I was wondering what would be the difference between characters and letters? I heard someone say in Japanese every letter is pronounced because it is a character based language. As I'm developing a few languages this seems like a good thing to know. |
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| Author: | Green Mist [ December 3rd, 2011, 7:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters Vs letters |
That is a good question Josaiah! But... I don't know.
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| Author: | Ciela Rose [ December 8th, 2011, 11:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters Vs letters |
Hmm. Never thought of the differences. I'll go do some research and post what I find. Great question. 
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| Author: | The Bard [ December 8th, 2011, 4:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters Vs letters |
I think what it means is that a character based language is has a character that represents a word. And letter based means the characters represent a sound instead of an entire word. |
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| Author: | Josiah Mimetes [ December 9th, 2011, 12:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters Vs letters |
That makes sense... Thanks Bard! |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ December 10th, 2011, 2:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters Vs letters |
I had an idea of the answer, but I checked here to make sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_%28symbol%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_%28alphabet%29 Basically a character is any sort of sign or symbol, and a letter is a single character used in an alphabet. About the Japanese writing system: here is a link if you want to read about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system In English we pretty much have only one way to write a certain word, by spelling it in our roughly phonetic alphabet. But in Japanese there are two or three ways to write something. They have characters descended from Chinese characters which stand for ideas or full syllables, in a way. Here are some links about this kind of writing system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese They also have two other writing systems that they use. They are both phonetic systems, but are not like our alphabet. They are syllabaries, where each character represents a sound, or pair of sounds. For instance there is a character for "a," another for "ka," another for "ki," and so on. Here are some links about those writing systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana They also use the Latin alphabet. Here is a link about that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaji |
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| Author: | Green Mist [ December 23rd, 2011, 7:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters Vs letters |
I think a letter IS a character. |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ December 26th, 2011, 11:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters Vs letters |
Yep. By definition letter is a character used in an alphabet. |
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