日本语1
What is Japanese
#Japanese Sound System
23 consonant sounds + 5 vowel sounds, with pitch accent
When spoken, the Japanese language is formed using either vowels or a consonant-vowel pair, except the “n” sound (single consonant sound)
#Japanese Writing System
Come around 1500 years age from China
Currentlt has 3 types of writing: hiragana, katakana, kanji
Kanji were imported from China, traditionally used for both meaning and sound.
Hiragana: 46 characters with two diacritical marks that are used to denote the sounds
Each hiragana symbolizes with a vowel or a consonant combined with a vowel.
Hiraganas are in particular used for function words and inflectional endings, as well as in some content words.
Hiragana | ん | w | r | y | m | h | n | t | s | k | |
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a | ん | わ | ら | や | ま | は | な | た | さ | か | あ |
i | り | み | ひ | に | ち | し | き | い | |||
u | る | ゆ | む | ふ | ぬ | つ | す | く | う | ||
e | れ | め | へ | ね | て | せ | け | え | |||
o | を | ろ | よ | も | ほ | の | と | そ | こ | お |
Katagana is also a syllabary, is used for loan words, onomatopoeic words and scientific words.