Chapter 1. Introduction (pages 1-23)
- Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese
- How Many Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese? 1
- How are the Three Peoples Related? (see a sample) 2
- Linguistic Units and Terms
- Languages of the World 5
- Phonemes and Syllables 6
- Morphemes and Words 8
- Writing Systems of the World
- How did Writing Begin? 9
- Development of Writing Systems 11
- Relations Among Writing Systems and Scripts 12 (see a sample)
- Scripts and Literacy 15
- Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Scripts 18 (see a sample)
- About This Book
- Chinese, Korean, and Japanese in Roman Letters 19
- How the Book is Organized 20 (see a sample)
- Bibliography for Introduction 22
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