China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Is There a Phonetic Alphabet?
i know japanese, for instance, has the no cangi characters that are roughly analogous to what you're describing. But there are also phonetic alphabets. Is there? How does one is there a phonetic alphabet of any kind? Well, now they do, but certainly, where the book starts, whith oll story starts in the early twentieth century, the answer is no.
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