@freemo Roots of the language and of the writing system are not necessarily the same. There were multiple instances of significant import of "characters" from ~Chinese into Japanese and I had the impression that at least some of them didn't import much past the characters themselves.
Id love to ubderstand how that developed. Importing a writing system but not a language only seems possible at all with logograms which is kinda cool.
Huh? Isn't that the case with all languages that use Latin alphabet but aren't romance?
No, letters arent a writi g system a writing system would be the meaning of the words, the grammer, everything but the sounds.
In logographic languages the same or similar symbol has entierly different spoken words attached to it but the symbol would mean the same.
In a phonographic language that cant be possible since the letters represent soubds so the spoken language is explicitly linked to the written.
Yea im clueless on the asian side of this equation sadly