Kana

Kana are the syllabic Japanese scripts, as opposed to the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji and the roman alphabet known as r maji. There are three kana scripts: modern cursive hiragana , modern angular katakana , and the old syllabic use of kanji known as man y gana that was ancestral to both. Katakana with a few additions is used to write Ainu. Kana was used in Taiwanese as a gloss (furigana) for Chinese characters during the Japanese administration of Taiwan. See Taiwanese kana. Kana syllabograms are always CV (consonant with vowel) or V (only vowel) with the sole exception of the C grapheme for n. This structure had some scholars label the system moraic instead of syllabic, because it requires the combination of two syllabograms to represent a CVC or CCV syllable.

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• Autoren: Frederic P. Miller
• Mitarbeit: Agne F Vandome (Herausgeber), John McBrewster (Herausgeber), Frederic P. Miller (Herausgeber), Agnes F. Vandome (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: External catalogues UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9786130286279
• ISBN: 978-613-0-28627-9
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft