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The three East-Asian scripts—Chinese (characters and Pinyin), Japanese (multi-scripts), and Korean (alphabetic Hangul)—are discussed. Under each script, a brief historical account of the given writing system, the key features of the script, and the strengths and weaknesses as a script are ...
1 A general study of the most ancient New Persian documents in alphabets different from Ar-abic is given by Orsatti (2007, 107–172, with reference to previous studies), and – from a histori-co-cultural perspective – by Orsatti (2008). For the layout of the page in Islamic manuscripts...
Chapter 5 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Writing Systems: All East-Asian but Different Scripts Abstract The three East-Asian scripts—Chinese (characters and Pinyin), Japanese (multi-scripts), and Korean (alphabetic Hangul)—are discussed. Under each script, a brief historical account of ...