Phonographic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to phonography or to a phonograph

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"I often wonder why Mandarin and Cantonese writing did not incorporate phonograms amongst the logograms. I am thinking of Bopomofo and other phonographic inventions. I know that in other Chinese topolects as Hokkien, mixed phonographic-logographic text has been tried, in different versions. Japanese is just this way."

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