Japanese is spoken by 126 million people mainly in Japan but also in 26 other countries including American Samoa, Argentina, Australia, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Guam, Mexic… lagi →
DSHOCKNEWSDShock wrote 3 years ago: Japanese is spoken by 126 million people mainly in Japan but also in 26 other countries including Am … more →
DShock wrote 3 years ago: Between 5,000 and 10,000 Chinese characters, or kanji, are used in written Japanese. In 1981 in an … more →
DShock wrote 3 years ago: Before the 4th century AD, the Japanese had no writing system of their own. During the 4th century t … more →
DShock wrote 3 years ago: アイヌ イタク/Aynu itak Ainu is spoken on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido by maybe 15 families. I … more →
DShock wrote 3 years ago: ORIGIN The katakana syllabary was derived from abbreviated Chinese characters used by Buddhist monks … more →
DShock wrote 3 years ago: ORIGIN Hiragana syllables developed from Chinese characters, as shown below. Hiragana were originall … more →
DShock wrote 3 years ago: The Latin alphabet was first used in Japan in the 16th century by Portuguese missionaries, who devis … more →