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Question: are kanji fast to read?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 10:36:12 AM EST
Kana (Japanese syllabary) is read faster than kanji, according to Maryanne Wolf in Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and syllabary is of a similar "efficiency" to an alphabet. (Efficiency being defined as the  the capacity of a writing system to be read fluently and with comprehension).

None of which indicates that the logographic systems are actually slow...but it does seem they're not quite as fast.

by Sassafras on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 02:38:54 PM EST
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