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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 640–643.
Published: 01 May 2003
...David J. Silva The Korean Alphabet of 1446: Expositions, OPA, the Visible Speech Sounds, Annotated Translation, Future Applicability . By Sek Yen Kim-Cho . Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books ; Seoul: Asea Culture Press, 2002 . 475 pp. $70.00 (cloth). The Korean Alphabet: Its History...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (4): 633–634.
Published: 01 August 1958
...Pow-key Sohn Hangul ui kiwŏn (The Origin of the Korean Alphabet, Hangŭl According to New Historical Evidence) . By Lee Sang-Beck . Publication of the National Museum of Korea, Ser. A, Vol. 3. Seoul : T'ong-Mun Kwan , 1957 . 45 . Plates, English Summary (11 pp.). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Abstract This article rethinks the history of Chinese script reforms and proposes a new genealogy for the Chinese Latin Alphabet (CLA), invented in 1931 by Chinese and Russian revolutionaries in the Soviet Union. Situating script reforms within a global information age that emerged...
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in The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script in the Global Information Age
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 1. The Unified New Turkic Alphabet ( Kul'tura i Pis'mennost’ Vostoka , kniga vtoroia [Baku: Izdanie VTsK NTA, 1928]).
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in The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script in the Global Information Age
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 4. The New Dunganese Alphabet, 1928 (Chobanzade 1928 , 24–25).
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in The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script in the Global Information Age
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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 5. Gwoyeu Romatzyh: The Second National Phonetic Alphabet (“Guoyu” 1927 , accessed via quanguo baokan suoyin 全國報刊索引).
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (3): 284–287.
Published: 01 May 1951
... in his comments does Mr. Broek relate his criticisms to any of the chief conclusions in my study. JUSTUS M. VAN DER KROEF Michigan State College A PRACTICAL ALPHABETIC SCRIPT FOR CHINESE In ancient China, writing was largely phonetic. After the reforms made by Li Sz [Li Ssu] and Cheng Mao in the third...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 373–399.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Chad Hansen Abstract I t began with the Phoenicians . Most written languages now use their invention— a phonetic alphabet. The invention of alphabetic writing escorted an influential theory of language onto the intellectual stage. Aristotle expressed the basic outline of that theory, which has...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 599–604.
Published: 01 May 1972
... to the existing data bank a simple automated system was devised. It consists of sequential and alphabetical listings for each language and a subject index based on a thesaurus of descriptors, taking into account characteristic features of a given language. Instantaneous retrieval via the above-mentioned elements...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 590.
Published: 01 May 1999
... 1999 issue (58.1:78–80), the glossary in Joanna F. Handlin Smith's article on “Liberating Animals in Ming-Qing China” lost its original alphabetical order. Thus, Guangci bian is positioned after Chen Di on p. 78; renxing follows “Guang fangsheng hui yin” midway down the first column of p. 79; “Jiesha...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (3): 420–421.
Published: 01 May 1957
... tables, one with Wade-Giles romanization and the other in the alphabet according to the New Draft Plan with Yale romanization will facilitate study of this kind. A few points in Mr. Hsia's two Introductions need a word of clarification. In his Introduction to simplification of characters, Mr. Hsia...
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Journal of Asian Studies 11493145.
Published: 08 January 2025
... to reduce the number of strokes in Chin ese characters. On the second side were supporte rs of the National Phonetic Alphabet, a phonetic script consisting of a few dozen syllabic sounds that were unrelated to the Latin alphabet and are still used in Taiwan (where they are known as Bopomofo...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (3): 421–423.
Published: 01 May 1957
..., under the topic of the "History of the Alphabet Movement in China," Mr. Hsia, for some unexplained reason, omits all mention of the Chu-yin tzu-mu" (Phonetic Alphabet) subsequently renamed Chu-yin hu-haow (Phonetic Symbols). He mentions Lu Kang-chang's "romanized phonetic script, Wang Chao's Mandarin...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 861–863.
Published: 01 November 1992
... (sign) in the development of writing, and the relation between units of speech and units of writing. The author rightly cautions against a popular belief that a phoneticized (or alphabetized) script is the best script in some absolute sense, for "the system with the fewest elements is not necessarily...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (4): 634–636.
Published: 01 August 1958
... and Puerto Rico. By George A. Malcolm . Boston : Christopher Publishing House , 1957 . 288 . Illustrations, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 634 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES previous theories and proves that the Korean alphabet is definitely the creation...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 11 (1): 90–92.
Published: 01 November 1951
..., its social and political impracticability remains obvious. Dr. De Francis advances every argument of scientific linguistics, starting from the truism that whatever can be spoken intelligibly can be written phonetically, to demonstrate that the Chinese language can be alphabetized. The entire dogma...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 612–613.
Published: 01 May 1982
... a page and a half. The BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 613 reference number used by the library where it is housed is provided for each manuscript, and the works are listed alphabetically (in the case of longer works such as the Rdmdyana and the Mahdbhdrata, with subsections on each kdnda, parva, etc Manuscripts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 135–157.
Published: 01 February 2017
... , 80). The Ministry of Education sponsored six-month courses, which met each week two or three times, for instruction in the traditional Mongol Bichig and, until interest in script reform stalled, the Latin alphabet. In these longer-term courses, students were expected not only to learn how to read...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (4): 517–540.
Published: 01 August 1956
... . 39 “Kuo-wu-yüan kuan-yü t'ui-kuang p'u-t'ung hua ti chih-shih” [“Directive of the State Council on the Promotion of the Common Language”], Jen-min jih-pao , Feb. 12, 1956 , p. 3
. It should be pointed out that the alphabet and explanations appearing in
China Reconstructs , Jan. 1956 , p...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 863–865.
Published: 01 November 1992
.... It is difficult to say whether the obligatory stop in Greece, the land of the mother of all alphabets, is a separate trip or a side trip from the Middle East. On one hand, the lineage unmistakably goes back to the Phoenician script; on the other hand, there is an inexplicable "dark age" lasting as long as three...
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