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Originally Posted by Polyglot27
Ancient Japanese seemed to have 7 vowels. But in those days they transcribed it into Chinese characters with a similar sound. Hiragana and katakana did not exist then. The poems in the "Man'yoshu" seem to have this 7 vowel system.
However, have you thought of Korean? It is an agglutinative language and has a true alphabet with separate consonants and vowels. I love it because it is perfectly designed to express the Korean phonetic system. At the same time it looks like Chinese writing to people not used to East Asian scripts. It has at least 7 vowels if that is what you are looking for.
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I am quite fond of Hangul as well, though in the past my cursory inspection of it did not leave me feeling it could be easily molded to reasonably phonetically represent Hungarian, without altogether ignoring the accepted values of letter forms.
You are--am I right?--suggesting that expanding Hiragana is likely to be difficult and/or more a work of creative imagination than linguistic derivation/restoration.
That was my own thought, but had hoped you might know something about it that I don't.
I'll post my efforts as they yield some fruit.
- Ahi