>>416
It's not the language. It's its WRITTEN REPRENSATION.
>>417
The "umbrella term" is Sinitic languages. They aren't mutually intelligible now, so they aren't dialects. And their parent language - Chinese - died about 1000 years ago.
Calling them all "Chinese language" is like call German, Scandinavian and English just "Germanic language".
learn2learn faggot.
>>419
1. I agree that Hanzi is part of Japanese culture, no doubt, but culture isn't something untouchable, it's something that you change and grow.
2. Things can be made slowly, like obsoleting first the least common Hanzi and, in about 50 or even 100 years, replacing them all with hira/kata.
And note that they have 100% hieroglyphic value only in Japanese. Most of them have a meaning and a rhyme radicals - rhyming in Chinese, not in Japanese.