■Now and Future

Until now

こうして文字は現在わたしたちの利用している文字になりました。世界中の現用文字はいくつあるのかははっきりしていませんが、だいたい30〜40種ぐらいであるとされています。それらはすべて1000年前ごろにはほとんど今に近い形で存在していました。

楔形文字からはじまった文字が最終的には究極の単純形である「ラテン文字」になったかと思いきや、その筆者すら把握しきれないほど膨大な文字数をもつ「漢字」に分かれたりしたことの経緯を考えると、ひとつひとつの文字には統計では語れないような歴史があることがわかると思います。わたしたち「MOZIの歴史」メンバーは、古今東西に存在した数百種もの文字の中からいくつか重要なものを抜粋し、簡単な歴史と特徴を記したものをまとめました。→文字事典

Writing future

Needless to say, the history is being build now.
More than 5000 years have passed since the birth of writing, it has kept developing continually.
What will happen to the several dozen of writings all over the world?

“Worldwide character” is a one of the concept.
It is the idea that through the selection of the character, only one common character will finally remain in the world.
And the most reliable character is “Latin character”.
We can say that In the future, japanese official character will be alphabet.

Conclusion

The most important thing we think is that writing keep developing for more convenience.
Latin character has almost changed simply and everyone can write at once.
Compared with that, how do you feel about Kanji character?
Its stroke count is large and its reading is complex, so it is hard to learn and write.
However,you can find that Kanji character also keep developing.
A clear instance is old style of Kanji.For example,“栄”is simple style of "榮”,and ”国”is simple style of”國”.
Moreover,we raise writing without intention , such as the reduction of radical “門”.
We have to pay attention in using this reduction at school or formal text, but in the future,the reduction will officially join the Kanji character as a new character style.
Like this, character is now developing.
We also think that it is important to cognize that character existence is not eternal.
The value of the writing is over when the writer is disappeared. It is found the fact that there are many historical character which were not deciphered yet.
Therefore,we think we have to save our writing.
Followed as “writing future”, there will be a common character of the whole world after hundreds or thousands of year.
At the time,it is possibly to disappear the character which has long history.
It is true of Kanji ,Hiragana,and Katakana character.
For saving our character,it is the most important to learn the history of writing .