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The History of Writing Systems — Japanese Kana and Sanskrit?

Let's have a brief look at the origins of Japanese Kana (Hiragana and Katakana), how they evolved from Man'yôgana, as well as how the grammar of Sanskrit — through Buddhist influence — shaped their phonetic grid. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:57 Phonetic Grid and Sound Changes 03:43 Voiced and P-Kana 06:55 "Y-otated" Kana 08:30 How Kanji Morphed into Kana 10:34 The Brāhmī and Indic Scripts 12:48 The Indic Phonetic Grid 15:30 Specifically Japanese Alterations 18:38 Summary 20:18 Kana by Similarity A brief bibliography: Campbell / Moseley: "The Routledge Handbook of Scripts & Alphabets" F. Coulmas: "The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems" Daniels / Bright (ed.): "The World’s Writing Systems" D. Diringer: "The Alphabet, A Key to the History of Mankind" C. Faulmann: "Das Buch der Schrift" Christopher Seeley: "A History of Writing in Japan"