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The Japanese Language - Nihongo
Japanese (Nihongo) is a language spoken by over 130 million
people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is
related to the Ryukyuan languages, but its overall
relationships with other languages remains controversial. It is
an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex
system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of
Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary to
indicate the relative status of speaker and listener. The sound
inventory of Japanese is relatively small, and has a lexically
distinct pitch-accent system.
The Japanese language is written with a combination of three
different types of scripts: Chinese characters called kanji,
and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese
characters, hiragana and katakana. The Latin alphabet, ro-maji,
is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company
names and logos, advertising, and when entering Japanese text
into a computer. Western style Arabic numerals are generally
used for numbers, but traditional Sino-Japanese numerals are
also commonplace.
Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loanwords
from other languages. A vast number of words were borrowed from
Chinese, or created from Chinese models, over a period of at
least 1,500 years. Since the late 19th century, Japanese has
borrowed a considerable number of words from Indo-European
languages, primarily English. Because of the special trade
relationship between Japan and first Portugal in the 16th
century, and then mainly the Netherlands in the 17th century,
Portuguese, German and Dutch have also been influential.
Source: Wikipedia
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