Tagged Questions
9
votes
1answer
106 views
「はは」(母) and ハ行転呼
It occurred to me the other day that if ハ行転呼 had affected all applicable environments without exception, 母 /haha/ (or I guess properly it was /ɸaɸa/, right?)should have become /hawa/.
The Japanese ...
7
votes
1answer
367 views
Did any writing systems exist before kanji was imported?
Did any writing systems, or even failed attempts at them, exist for Japanese before kanji was imported from China?
11
votes
3answers
865 views
About writing numbers using Japanese numerals vs using Arabic numerals
I noticed that even though Japanese language has kanji characters for numbers (e.g. 十、百、千、万 etc), there are many places where Arabic numerals are used instead, for example, prices for shop items are ...
