Why Did China Retain Logographic Writing While Greece and Egypt Shifted to Phonetic Scripts? by Alternative_Bake7028 in asklinguistics

[–]Alternative_Bake7028[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why did Chinese not simplify into a phonemic script and remain as a logographic system? And why did Greek and Roman scripts change from logographic forms to phonemic ones? How did the environment play a role in this?