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why does china and japan not used romanized writing?

is it simply to maintain culture-

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  • 4 years ago

    China and Japan both have so many people that it would take forever to change the nation's languages. Although English is a second language to most Chinese and Japanese people.

  • 4 years ago

    The Russians don't either, and neither do the Greeks, Israelis, Iranians, Arabs, Koreans (both) and so on.

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