As escritas coreana e japonesa: dois caminhos tradutórios

Abstract

For long time, Koreans and Japanese had the Chinese ideograms as the only means for documentation, instruction and education. In other words, Koreans and Japanese, speakers of ural-altaic languages, were obliged to write in an sino-tibetan language. To overcome this gap, both developed their own writing systems, where the Chinese ideograms were the starting point. These were really a translation process, which reveal different means to deal with the difference.