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Chinese Mandarin uses pinyin as the 'spoken' language, which can also be written as letters with tones above the letters (there are four different tones). There is also a traditional and modern type of calligraphy (like Chinese characters) which is not made up of letters, but symbols instead.
I don't know Japanese, but I know there are a few different types of alphabets and forms of writing in that language eg. Kangi?
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∙ 6y agoIf you're comparing languages to English, almost all languages of the world have different forms of writing. Some of the most different are:
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Arabic
- Hindi
- Tamil
- Malayalam
- Hebrew
- Syriac
- Armenian
- Georgian
- Cherokee
- Thai
- Lao
- And thousands of others.
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