Phonogramology (continued 3):                                                                                                 

There are different points of view on phonograms (phonetic characters) that need to be verified in linguistic research. We present some of the common beliefs as follows;

• The advantage of phonetic characters is that they are simple, convenient, and easy to spread.
• Phonograms only indicate pronunciation. Although phonograms also indicate a thing, their letters are not related to the concept of the thing itself. So phonograms are easy to spell, but it requires a lot of memorization of the meaning behind it because it only means pronunciation(sound).
• Phonetic writing relies on sound for its inheritance. However, the ethnic groups where the phonetic characters of the borrowed characters are located often undergo huge cultural changes, and they are bound to take the phonetic characters as the ultimate direction of development.
• Phonetic writing refers to a writing system in which the recorded form and symbols of a language express its content by phonetics, which will reach a certain consistency with its spoken language.  This set of recorded symbols is called phonetic writing.  For example Latin script, Kana, Hangul, etc.
• Phonograms are completely dependent on language. If the language changes, the text will basically die.
• Phonograms originated from ancient Greece and were later improved by the Romans into “Latin” letters and spread throughout Europe.  Language, as a tool of thinking, has developed modern text symbols through thousands of years of civilized performance and improvement.
• A syllabary is a type of phonetic writing. It is a set of writing symbols representing the syllables and beats (moras) used to form words. Generally, one syllable corresponds to one character.  A symbol in a syllabic script is called a syllabogram and is usually composed of a consonant (but not necessarily) followed by a vowel, such as a syllable CV or V.  In some phonetic characters, you can see the combination of CVC and the word representing the pronunciation of CV.  (Ex. Japanese).  Syllabic characters in which each syllable has its own symbol, which is not a combination of phonemes like kana, are quite rare in the world (citations needed).

(To be continued)