@babelstone.co.uk I am very curious how a random Japanese farmer in 1868 was able to make his invented script resemble Tangut so closely... www.reddit.com/r/linguistic...
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Hm, I've had this exact same conversation with someone else on bluesky a while back. To me it looks nothing like Tangut. One of the defining features of Tangut script that distinguishes it from kanji and this invented script is that Tangut does not have any box components such as 口囗日目田皿 etc.
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Tangut has some open components which are blocked, similar to 月, but never any closed box components such as 口, either by themselves or surrounding other elements. So when I see lots of characters with box components I think it is not a Tangut-like script.
may 9, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Previous discussion on the same question of the Tangutishness of the Japanese invented script
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