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There are 4 Japanese writing systems not 3 - 12-03-2010, 04:48 AM

A friendly debate with a classmate which I thought might be of interest to some people on here.

The 26 letter alphabet and arabic numerals being the fourth.

He said that it doesn't count because it's not "Japanese"

My argument is that neither is Kanji. And the increasing use of the alphabet and especially arabic numerals in Japanese means it should be included (though of course we don't need to familiarise ourselves with it as we already are).

What do you think?

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