The letters in alphabets, in contrast, represent distinct sounds, or "phonemes," that are used to make up the sounds of a spoken word, Steele said in an email.

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This results in 46 distinct letters, almost double the number used in the English alphabet. The phonology of Japanese is mercifully quite simple. If we were to use a syllabic writing system for ...

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