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    Author: * dottie Curius - 2 Posts on this thread out of 61 Posts sitewide.
    Date: May 8, 2003 - 11:42

    The fascinating existance of writing prior to chinese character adoption.
    The Japanese used a form of pictographs as a simple written language. For instance, the word for water or river was written as three wavy lines indicating the movement of water.


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