{"id":8291,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/kana_scripts\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:07","slug":"kana_scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/kana_scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kana scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scripts in which the characters represent &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp\/sp\/lessonj\/doc\/mora.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp\/sp\/lessonj\/doc\/mora.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moras<\/a>&#8216; that are mostly consonant-vowel syllables; the Japanese use two syllabaries called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/hiragana\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/hiragana&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hiragana<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/katakana\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/katakana&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">katakana<\/a>&#8216;. &nbsp;There is a higher incidence of illiteracy among Japanese children when reading kanji (a script borrowed from Chinese) compared to kana. &nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.differencebetween.net\/language\/difference-between-kana-and-kanji\/\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.differencebetween.net\/language\/difference-between-kana-and-kanji\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">differences between the two scripts<\/a> go beyond the fact that one of them has made use of Chinese. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"alphabetic_writing_systems\">Alphabetic writing systems<\/a>, <a href=\"logographic_writing_systems\">Logographic writing systems<\/a>, <a href=\"orthography\">Orthography<\/a>, <a href=\"syllabary\">Syllabary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scripts in which the characters represent &#8216;moras&#8216; that are mostly consonant-vowel syllables; the Japanese use two syllabaries called &#8216;hiragana&#8216; and &#8216;katakana&#8216;. &nbsp;There is a higher incidence of illiteracy among Japanese children when reading kanji (a script borrowed from Chinese) compared to kana. &nbsp;The differences between the two scripts go beyond the fact that one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/kana_scripts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kana scripts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}