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  1. Table of man'yōgana. Table of. man'yōgana. あ. a. 阿、安、英、足. い. i. 伊、怡、以、異、已、移、射、五.

  2. Mar 4, 2020 · Man'yōgana: Japan's Least Known Alphabet - YouTube. Chad Zimmerman. 21.1K subscribers. Subscribed. 176. 3.2K views 3 years ago Japanese Language Learning Tips. Resources by dudes with bigger...

  3. Man'yōgana is the oldest known sound-based writing system used for the Japanese language. When kanji, or Chinese characters used to write Japanese, first came to Japan in around the 4th century AD through the Korean Peninsula, it was only used to write the Chinese language.

  4. Japanese writing. Learn about this topic in these articles: Japanese language writing development. In Japanese art: Calligraphy and painting. …of Chinese characters, known as manyōgana, were employed to represent Japanese phonetic sounds, and two even more abbreviated phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, were known in nascent form.

  5. Apr 18, 2001 · Abstract. Most scholars in Japanese studies (history, linguistics, literature) tend to accept in one form or another the ancient legend that the phonetic writing system of ancient Japan, known as man'yōgana, came from Paekche. This legend about the ancient Korean kingdom—Paekche—appears in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki, Japan's two oldest ...

  6. www.japanpitt.pitt.edu › glossary › manyōganaman'yōgana | Japan Module

    An ancient form of Japanese kana which uses Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds. Their earliest attestation is not clear, but they seem to have been in use since at least the sixth century. The name man'yōgana is from the Man'yōshū (Anthology of Myriad Leaves), a Japanese poetry anthology from the Nara period written in man ...

  7. Feb 1, 2001 · The origin of man'yōgana. J. R. Bentley. Published in Bulletin of the School of… 1 February 2001. Linguistics, History. Most scholars in Japanese studies (history, linguistics, literature) tend to accept in one form or another the ancient legend that the phonetic writing system of ancient Japan, known as man'yōgana, came from Paekche.