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Premaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This article provides a comparative evaluation of Chinese character reform in the People's Republic of China and Japan, with a particular focus on the latest changes announced in 2009 to the existing script policies in the two countries. The first Chinese script reform took place in 1956 and the first Japanese script reform in 1946, both for the…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Zucker, George K. – 1991
Problems in the translation of Judeo-Spanish texts go beyond the problems normally associated with translation. Aside from near-native control of two languages, the translator must have knowledge of vocabulary that is not completely Spanish and an understanding of the unique orthographic history of the Judeo-Spanish dialect. There are Spanish…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Diachronic Linguistics, Diacritical Marking, Dialects
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Dunkle, Clare B. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1993
Considers whether or not library materials in East Asian languages should be integrated into the general collection. Romanized access through a Latin-script library catalog and nonromanized access through a browsing collection are considered. After exploring the difficulties in romanizing Chinese and Japanese scripts, a separate collection is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Chinese, Comparative Analysis
Lam, Clara; Chow, Balance – 1995
American students are exposed to many different romanization systems when learning Chinese. The most important systems include Pinyin, Zhuyin fuhao, Wade-Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzhy, and the Yale system, to name just a few. The Pinyin system, which is built on the English alphabet, is the official transliteration system of mainland China. The Zhuyin…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Maintenance, Foreign Countries