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  1. 2 days ago · Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.

  2. 11 hours ago · The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Old_JapaneseOld Japanese - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century). It became Early Middle Japanese in the succeeding Heian period , but the precise delimitation of the stages is controversial.

    • 8th century
    • Japonic, Old Japanese
  4. May 1, 2024 · Japanese grammar. Japanese is an agglutinative, synthetic, mora -timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment.

    • de aru (である)
    • de wa (では)
    • de (で)
    • da (だ, informal)desu (です, polite)de gozaimasu (でございます, respectful)
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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HiraganaHiragana - Wikipedia

    May 6, 2024 · Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana literally means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji).

  7. Apr 25, 2024 · Japan has a rich culture that spans thousands of years, with prehistory dating back as far as 14,500 BC. In this post, we’ll explore everything you need to know about Japanese culture — the Japanese language, food, anime, religion and spirituality, you name it.

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