Chinese charts, transcriptions (olim Origins of Cree and Tamil)

--- qalam@yahoogroups.com 的正文：

> > That I have
> > certainly seen used in French and SIL teaches it
> as a literacy
> > technique. I have no idea however, what the
> earliest instance of
> > arranging a writing system into a matrix would be
> and whether it
> > appeared independently in different lgs and
> cultures. I suppose CJK
> > have these charts also but where was it used
> first?
>
> Do you mean Chinese characters? No, how could they
> have such a chart? It is
> a logographic script, so there are multiple
> characters for each syllable.

Before Bopomofo or Pinyin were devised, the Chinese
had big matrix-like charts with initials and finals
that one would use to learn the pronunciation of an
unknown character. Maybe this is what the original
post referred to.

> But I have seen a similar chart with the Chinese
> characters used for the
> standard transcription of foreign words or names.
> You can see it in the
> "Chinese writing system" entry of Florian Coulmas'
> "The Blackwell
> Encyclopedia of Writing Systems".

There usually are several characters to choose from
for a given foreign syllable. Does Coulmas give only
one character for each syllable to be transcribed?

Gianni

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