Language: Japanese Alternate names: Nihongo, Nipongo, 日本語, にほんご Language code: jpn Language family:Japonic, Japanesic, Japan-Taiwan Japanese Earlier forms:Middle Japanese. Number of speakers: 122433899 Script: Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana ...
Wikipedia for Yomitan A conversion of the DBPedia short-abstract dumps of JA Wikipedia for Yomitan. This dictionary features over 1.2 million entries with each entry containing the abstract and a link to the Wikipedia article. Unfortunately there are no dumps of DBPedia after December 2022, so...
Modern Japanese (1853 - present). After Japan was forced to open up to the world in 1853, words from languages such as German, French and English began to enter the language. This process has accelerated since 1945, especially with English words. ...
Modern Japanese is arguably one of the hardest language to process, as it mixes up a blend of Sino-Japanese, native Japanese, Latin script (romaji /ローマ字), loanwords from the Dutch, Portuguese, French, English, German, plus Arabic and traditional Chinese numerals. In addition, the ...
(either Japanese or borrowed from Chinese), and two parallel syllabic alphabets, each containing 47 syllabic symbols, orkana.The first alphabet,hiragana, is used to transcribe syntactic morphemes and onomatopoeic words. The second alphabet,katakana, is used in writing new loanwords. The Japanese ...
‘Japan” has four moraeni + p + po + n, even though it has only three syllables. The number of characters in thehiraganaspelling of the word reflect the number of morae. This moraic structure is imposed on loanwords with the result that the monosyllabic Englishword strikein Japanese ...
A Study of the New Chinese Characters in Modern Korean Language-focusing on the Relationship with the Japanese Loan Words The generation of modern Chinese characters does not originate from the native language's natural development, but originates from the external new concept... Lin,Li - 《Korea...
Although many editors are not familiar with Japanese characters, specific Japanese words are often of interest in articles. In these cases, it is usually appropriate to provide a [[wikipedia:Romanization|romanization]] of that word – in other words, to write it using the Latin Alphabet. ...
The katakana syllabary consists of 48 syllables and was originally considered "men's writing". Since the 20th century, katakana have been used mainly to write non-Chinese loan words, onomatopoeic words, foreign names, in telegrams and for emphasis (the equivalent of bold, italic or upper case...
Katakana is a phonetic alphabet - each letter represents the sound of a syllable (like English ABC). Letter itself has no meaning. Katakana andHiraganarepresent exactly the same set of sounds. Katakana is used mostly for foreign loan words. ...