동북아 3국(한중일)의 문자체계 비교(영문)

소개

이 글은 영문으로 쓰여졌으며 한중일 3국이 한자를 어떻게 공유해왔고 이에 따른 문자체계의 유사점과 차이점들은 무었인지, 각국에서 쓰이는 한자가 어떻게 달라져 왔으며 이를 통해 언어 기록의 차이점들을 설명하고 앞으로 한자 문화권이 한자 표기 문제를 어떻게 가져갈 것인지 간략하게 살펴보았다.

목차

1. INTRODUCTION
A. Definition of terms
i. The Script (文字)

ii. The logographic writing (表意文字)
1. The pictograph (象形文字)

iii. The phonographic writing (表音文字)
1. The syllabic script (音节文字)
2. The alphabetic script (音素文字)
B. A preview of 3 North Eastern Asian scripts
i. Similarities
1. Based on Chinese characters (漢字)
2. Many words use the same characters
ii. Differences
1. They do not share the Chinese language (汉语)
2. The same characters have different meanings
3. The basic reasons for differences
A. Common
B. Japanese
C. Korean
2. History – The process of inter-language differentiation over time
A. Transmission of Chinese characters (漢字)
B. The process of differentiation – Movement to simple

i. China

ii. Japan

iii. Korea and other countries

iv. Examples of simplification
3. Today and Future of the Chinese character based script system
A. The present condition
i. The Chinese character system today
ii. The Japanese script system today
iii. The Korean alphabet system today

B. Future prospects
i. The hardest languages to learn
ii. Stuck in the middle

본문내용

B. A preview of 3 North Eastern Asian scripts

They are sharing Chinese characters but have different script systems. So there are similarities and differences as well. They have used Chinese characters on different system and histories long time.

i. Similarities

Before Japanese transformed Chinese character, they had used Chinese characters to write their language. Korean had used Chinese character to write before inventing Korean script.

1. Based on Chinese characters (漢字)

Chinese character is only existing script among ancient scripts in ancient writing system. Chinese are using simplified Chinese character(汉字; Hànzì), Japanese are using Japanese Chinese character(漢字; かんじ) with transformed Chinese characters kana; 仮名).

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