Sunday, 2 October 2011

Language

There are 3 different alphabets in Japan: katakana, hiragana and kanji. Katakana is used to spell the foreign words, like these:






Hiragana is the simple language. It's possible to spell everything in hiragana, but it would be hard to distinguish the words, as in Japanese you do not use space between the words. Therefore, hiragana signs can be joined to kanji, like these:


Hiragana is mostly used for a suffix of the word.

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