Thanks -- makes sense. I've seen the wi and we kana, and that Heian and pre-, Japanese had eight instead of five vowels (and more verb conjugations), and the whole why both b and p from h thing, so shifts from a sound closer to w makes a certain amount of sense.
I still kinda resent they didn't include particles in one or the other of the 20th century spelling reforms.
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Date: 23 August 2009 04:05 am (UTC)I still kinda resent they didn't include particles in one or the other of the 20th century spelling reforms.
---L.