Subject: Re: [FFML] [fanfic][OMG\Ranma][Edutainment] Language Lessons, Book I - Japanese 100: Survival Course, Prolog and Chapter 1
From: David Homerick
Date: 6/12/1999, 1:17 AM
To: "Miller, Bert" <bert.miller@unisys.com>, FFML <ffml@fanfic.com>



"Miller, Bert" wrote:


The word "kanji" is Japanese; the Chinese word for their alphabet is
"hanxi".  And I would describe it as "one of the three Japanese alphabets"
rather than "adopted into the...".

Technically speaking, there's only one Japanese "alphabet," and it's
identical to our own.  Hiragana and katakana are syllabaries, not
alphabets, and kanji is a system of logograms.  

-- David