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The classical Japanese language ( 文語 bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" ( 古文 kobun ), sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese" is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989). It is based on Early Middle Japanese, the language as spoken during the ...
The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験, Nihongo Nōryoku Shiken), or JLPT, is a standardized criterion-referenced test to evaluate and certify Japanese language proficiency for non-native speakers, covering language knowledge, reading ability, and listening ability. [1] The test is held twice a year in Japan and selected ...
Pages in category "Japanese language". The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Japanese language.
The other such language is Chinese, which has 59,235 speakers in Russia and is the 44th-most known language, but only 34,577 members of the nationality. Most students chose Japanese for economic rather than cultural reasons. Study of the language is noted as being most popular in the Russian Far East, especially among Sakhalin Koreans.
Japanese Braille. Japanese Braille is the braille script of the Japanese language. It is based on the original braille script, though the connection is tenuous. In Japanese it is known as tenji (点字), literally "dot characters". It transcribes Japanese more or less as it would be written in the hiragana or katakana syllabaries, without any ...
Japanese orthography. Japanese text is written with a mixture of kanji, katakana and hiragana syllabaries. Almost all kanji originated in China, and may have more than one meaning and pronunciation. Kanji compounds generally derive their meaning from the combined kanji. For example, Tokyo ( 東京) is written with two kanji: "east" ( 東 ...
taru- adjectives (ト・タル形容動詞, to, taru keiyōdōshi, literally "to, taru adjectival noun ") These are a variant of the common na -adjectives that developed in Late Old Japanese and have mostly died out, surviving in a few cases as fossils; they are usually classed as a form of 形容動詞 ( na -adjective), as the Japanese name ...
