Kana
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kana-189-12113802
title:
Kana
text:
Kana are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers to hiragana and katakana. It can also refer to their ancestor magana, which were Chinese characters used phonetically to transcribe Japanese; and hentaigana, which are historical variants of the now-standard hiragana. Katakana, with a few additions, are also used to write Ainu. A number of systems exist to write the Ryūkyūan languages, in particular Okinawan, in hiragana. Taiwanese
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Japanese syllabic writing systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana
date created:
2001-11-23T08:02:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:51:05Z
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