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9th century pottery offers new clues for origins of hiragana
BY JIRO TSUTSUI STAFF WRITER
2012/11/30
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Shards of pottery with some of the oldest hiragana characters (Masanori Takahashi)
KYOTO -- Researchers have identified one of the oldest examples of hiragana characters ever found, a discovery that could help language historians determine how complex kanji characters became modified as the simplified syllabary used today.
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