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{{PAGENAME}} is a zonal auxlang<ref>http://conlangery.com/2013/01/14/conlangery-80-zonal-auxlangs/</ref> intended to be quickly learnable, readily comprehensible, and mutually communicative between persons of the [[w:East Asian cultural sphere]]. It uses Chinese characters for | {{PAGENAME}} is a zonal auxlang<ref>http://conlangery.com/2013/01/14/conlangery-80-zonal-auxlangs/</ref> intended to be quickly learnable, readily comprehensible, and mutually communicative between persons of the [[w:East Asian cultural sphere]]. It uses Chinese characters for much of its writing, with some forms being simplified according to the [[w:Shinjitai]]/新字体 standards of Japan. The Japanese syllabary [[w:Katakana]] is used for all other sounds. It is non-tonal, nearly analytic, SVO, topic-prominent, uses classifiers, is pro-drop, copula-drop, and uses postpositions. | ||
== Phonology == | == Phonology == | ||
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! colspan="6" | Simple Syllables | ! colspan="6" | Simple Syllables | ||
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{| class="bluetable lightbluebg " style="text-align: center; | {| class="bluetable lightbluebg " style="text-align: center;" | ||
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! colspan="6" | Katakana | ! colspan="6" | Katakana | ||
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! colspan="5" | Katakana | ! colspan="5" | Katakana | ||
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The complex syllables of {{PAGENAME}} are clearly much more limited. | The complex syllables of {{PAGENAME}} are clearly much more limited. | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||