Fake Asian Lettering: Asian Languages Edition

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Fake Asian Lettering: Asian Languages Edition

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I recently came across this sign for a Japanese restaurant in Korea:
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The name is Hatane, which is clearly written in Latin letters. Below that, it says Hatane again in Korean, because this restaurant is in Korea. But they've chosen some Japanese kana that look like the hangeul letters they need.
You have あ, which stands in for ㅎ, then モ for ㅌ, and finally レ for ㄴ. The result is of course gibberish in Japanese, but I guess it gives the proper vibe.
If you look closely, you will see the name in proper Korean on the left hand side. Also, under the little cartoon highball the name is written in actual katakana.
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That’s kind of cool, seeing it done in a language other than English.
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Neat! Atomotore-X? It seems they basically gave up with ne; no kana provide a simple vertical stroke.
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Glass Half Baked wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 5:37 am You have あ, which stands in for ㅎ, then モ for ㅌ, and finally レ for ㄴ. The result is of course gibberish in Japanese, but I guess it gives the proper vibe.
I also se ト standing in forㅏ.

Neat!
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Yeah, I forgot to mention the kana used to stand in for vowels.

Does anyone have any examples of this between other non-Latin/Cyrillic writing systems?
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Glass Half Baked wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 7:17 pmDoes anyone have any examples of this between other non-Latin/Cyrillic writing systems?
The other day, I saw in passing a youtube thumbnail that asked if Korean can be used to write Cantonese. My initial thought is "yes, though diacritics or something may be needed for the tones."
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Hangul has a bunch of seldom/never-used bits for writing Middle Chinese (e.g. extending ㅅ to "alveolar" ᄼ and "retroflex" ᄾ for a distinction that was never made in Korean and was being lost in Chinese even when the book was written) so you could probably come up with a delightfully cursed historical orthography for Cantonese.
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