{"id":297,"date":"2011-03-05T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-05-03T23:33:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T06:33:53","slug":"katakana-800-ad-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/katakana-800-ad-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Katakana — ~800 AD, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katakana "ta"<\/p><\/div>\n

Like Hiragana<\/a>, Katakana is a syllabary used in Japan.\u00a0 While Hiragana is used for “Japanese-y”\/non-Chinese type things — Japanese words, declensions, inflections, and pronunciation, Katakana is used mostly for transcribing foreign words and\/or words with a foreign origin.\u00a0 (This is similar to the use of italics in English for bons mots <\/em>from other languages.)\u00a0 It is also used for “sound effects”, technical terms, and occasionally for emphasis.<\/p>\n

Like Hiragana, Katakana glyphs are sub-elements of Manyogana<\/a> glyphs, but Katakana appears to have come from a more angular variant while Hiragana comes from a more cursive variant.\u00a0 There is a one-to-one correspondence between Hiragana and Katakana characters.<\/p>\n

Vowel duration is semantically meaningful in Japanese, unlike English.\u00a0 (“Boooooooooriiiing!” might have a different emotional connotation than “Boring!”, but not a semantic one in English.)\u00a0 While in Hiragana, vowels with a longer duration are marked with another vowel (so “taa” would be “ta”+”a”), Katakana uses a symbol (bouten) which looks like a hyphen (so “taa” would be “ta” + “-“).<\/p>\n

Links: Wikipedia<\/a>, Ancient Script<\/a>, Omniglot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like Hiragana, Katakana is a syllabary used in Japan.\u00a0 While Hiragana is used for “Japanese-y”\/non-Chinese type things — Japanese words, declensions, inflections, and pronunciation, Katakana is used mostly for transcribing foreign words and\/or words with a foreign origin.\u00a0 (This is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-syllabaries-language-types"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}