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Why Have Nearly All of the World’s Writing Systems Become Alphabetic, While Chinese Characters Alone Have Remained Unchanged for 2,000 Years?

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世界各国的文字几乎都变成了字母文字,为何唯独中国文字两千年来都保持汉字不变?

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