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As I said before, if it's full of English loanwords (or worse, English technical terminology that's been adopted into Japanese), it'll likely be larger, since all that is expressed in katakana (phonetic characters). > So the space needed really depends on the content.

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It might be possible that some guidelines only show the character count and thus adjusted for the visual space, but I see no reason that most guidelines, primarily from professional translation companies, would get that same point wrong. There is also an inforgraphic about specific scenarios with a similar conclusion for all CJK languages. ) Other sources, for example, say that Japanese has a relative contraction of 10% to 55%, which is really variable but still supports my claim. > The only thing that was correct in your link is 'varies'.īecause I didn't bother to link all guidelines I've found. So what you'd really want is the language with the greatest information per phoneme divided by the total number of phonemes, or another way of putting it, how well it fits into a. If you have very few phonemes, you can group clusters together into single strokes, whereas if you have many phonemes then you may need multiple strokes for a single phoneme.

Different languages have different numbers of phonemes (Rotokas has just 11, while Taa has over 100). There are a limited number of different types of strokes you can include in a shorthand system before they become too similar to each other, so you are capped in how much information per second can be written regardless of the language. So maybe Vietnamese would be the most compact if you used a phonemic system, but I actually think it's more complicated than that. I remember seeing a study about the 'information density' of different languages and of all the languages covered, English was #2 in terms of information per syllable while Vietnamese was #1.Ī shorthand system is free to represent words phonemically instead of orthographically, and most languages have fewer phonemes per word than letters (or strokes/radicals/jamo if you're looking at Asian characters), so it would make sense to just always do that.

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