[conlang_learners] khanjis in Sambahsa

[Olivier Simon]

"Khanji" is the sambahsa word for "sinogram";
Thanks for the link; I will try to find on the net some dictionary which really lists which khanjis are common to Japanese and Mandarin. 
But, for the moment, I'm working on a quite similar project; the possibility that sambahsa words stemming from Arabic, Parsi and Urdu be written in arabic letters ! 
Sambahsa, besides its Indo-European base, includes words common to languages of different linguistic families. For languages which do not use the roman alphabet, that plays only on a phonetic level. With the (optional) possibility of using words written in other systems, I just want to test a further degree of internationality. 
 
Thanks
 
Olivier
http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/ 

--- On Sat, 7/25/09, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] khanjis in Sambahsa
To: "conlang_learners" <conlang_learners at conlang.org>
Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 2:12 AM


2009/7/25 Olivier Simon <cafaristeir at yahoo.com>:
> The idea is to use single "khanjis" when they're common to both Mandarin and Japanese (minor modifications can be accepted if there is no problem of identification).

If you want forms that are common to both, I'd recommend that you use
traditional characters; they're the "ancestors" of both Japanese and
Chinese simplified characters.

So 鹤 鲛 亀 歯 猫 浅 軽 --> 鶴 鮫 龜 齒 貓 淺 輕 .

(BTW, "kanji" doesn't have an H in it.)

> I will amend the webpage according to your remarks. If you know resources on the net that may be useful for me, don't hesitate to forward them to me !

If you want Japanese words, consider using Jim Breen's EDICT
Japanese-English dictionary -- available, for example, through the
WWWJDIC site http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
..

There, you can search for English keywords, look up the kanji records
for kanji in search results, search for kanji in various ways, etc.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>
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