From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 16:46:39 CST
On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Martin J. Heijdra wrote:
> In addition to Chinese "dialects", there are also quite a few other
> non-Chinese languages in South China which at one point or another
> have been written with adapted Chinese characters, in ways not
> unlike new Vietnamese or Cantonese characters were formed (and in
> some cases very possibly predating and being the basis of the
> latter): Dong, Bouyei, many Zhuang and other Tai language versions,
> Yao, various Miao languages. All very dispersed and uncontrolled,
> and certainly under researched. But I have always thought that the
> term CJKV privileges Vietnamese in a way that's not really
> warranted; one could start talking about CJKDBZTYMV….
>
Well, Vietnam gets the privilege because it pays to participate in the
IRG. Maybe we should more broadly advertise the fact -- participate
in the IRG and get your own letter in the acronym for East Asian
ideographic languages! :-)
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