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.

Hiraganawrymhntsk
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i
u
e
o

Katagana is also a syllabary, is used for loan words, onomatopoeic words and scientific words.