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In article <2179@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
	djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:

>LGC (Latin/Greek/Cyrillic) are clearly distinct culturally, although
>opponents of Han unification have argued the same for CJK characters. I 
>find the argument more persuasive for LGC than for CJK, but my
>information about CJK is entirely second-hand and this may be an area
>that is subjective enough to allow reasonable people to disagree.

LGC are used mostly by Indo-European languaes. They share the single
culture, the European culture. They even share the major religion,
Chiritianity.

On the other hand, the grammer of Chinese language is totally different
from JK languages, while JK languages are similar just as English and
German are similar.

But, as JK languages are so special, the origin of JK languages is yet
unknown.

In Japan, Shintoism and Buddhism are the two major religions. In Korea,
Confucianism is dominant. In China, you can find co-existence of
Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Communism and several other religions.

That is, while LGC are all alike, there are clear cultural difference
between CJK.

>Finally, LGC are graphically similar in some places and graphically
>divergent in others. <A> is everyone's favorite example, where all three
>scripts have similar form and function (although G lc <a> differs from
>LC lc <a> graphically). Things get messier one character over, however,

With Han characters, you can find thouthands of messy cases.

>If we were to unify, how would we do it?

Don't do that.

						Masataka Ohta