Japanese

Japanese (Japanese: Hiragana にほんご, Katakana ニホンゴ, Japanese Go, Roman characters) is the official language of Japan. The language family is controversial. Some people think it can be classified as Altaic language family, and some Japanese scholars think it is an isolated language (later, some Japanese scholars put forward the concept of Korean-Japanese Ryukyu language family, thinking that Japanese is subordinate) or Japanese language family. It is a glue language, and there are many borrowed Chinese characters in the writing system. Japanese has two sets of phonetic symbols: hiragana (hiragana) and katakana (katakana), and it can also be written in Latin letters with Roman characters. Pseudonyms and Chinese characters are often used in daily life, and Roman characters are often used in signboards or advertisements. The phonetic notation of Japanese characters uses Hiragana instead of Roman characters. Similar to Japanese is Ryukyu. Japanese is mainly used in Japan. When Japan ruled Taiwan Province Province of China and parts of Chinese mainland, Korean Peninsula, Southeast Asia and Oceania, local people were forced to learn to speak Japanese and were forced to give Japanese names, so there are still people who can speak Japanese and local languages at the same time, or use Japanese more skillfully. Many Japanese immigrants who have settled in California and Brazil also speak Japanese. Although their descendants have Japanese names, they rarely use Japanese skillfully. Japanese is a cohesive language, which forms sentences by pasting grammatical elements on words. This language is called flexible use. The combination between them is not close, only showing grammatical functions without changing the meaning of the original words. Japanese is very diverse, not only in spoken and written language, but also in simplicity, simplicity, dignity, solemnity, men, women and children. People in different industries and positions speak differently. This aspect reflects the strict hierarchy and team thinking of Japanese society. Honorific words are developed in Japanese. The use of honorifics makes Japanese in public very elegant. However, the overly complicated grammar makes it extremely difficult to learn honorifics. Even the native Japanese can't fully grasp it. The developed languages of honorifics are Korean and Mongolian. Japanese pronunciation is very simple, with only five vowels and several consonants. With all kinds of unusual sounds, the total * * * does not exceed 100. Spanish and Italian are similar in pronunciation to Japanese. Generally speaking, the proportion of consonants and vowels in the pronunciation of these three languages is close to 1: 1. Japanese vocabulary is very rich and huge, absorbing a lot of foreign words. Generally speaking, there are more than 30,000 (excluding names and places) (1956). (See Japanese # Japanese Vocabulary) is closely related to Altai language family and Austronesian language family, and is greatly influenced by Chinese, which absorbs tones and quantifiers originally characteristic of Sino-Tibetan language family, thus making the language attribution of Japanese very complicated. Linguists have different opinions about the origin of Japanese.

There are many theories about the origin of Japanese. Many scholars believe that, syntactically, Japanese is close to Altaic languages such as Turkish and Mongolian. It is generally believed that Japanese is syntactically similar to Korean. There is also evidence that Japanese morphology and vocabulary were influenced by southern Malay-Polynesian languages in prehistoric times.

Linguistically speaking, Japan is almost a single nation, with more than 99% of the population using the same language. This means that Japanese is the sixth largest language in the world. However, Japanese is rarely used outside Japan.

It is generally believed that the writing system in contemporary Japan includes Japanese characters, Hiragana and Katakana, which originated in China. Among them, ideographic Chinese characters were once called "real names" compared with pseudonyms. Although China people are no strangers to Chinese characters, they are still confused when they encounter Chinese characters such as "one", "one", "ying" and "bian". These Chinese characters were created by the Japanese. Perhaps many people don't know that the word "gland" used in Chinese now was also created by the Japanese in the Edo period. Of course, the pronunciation of Japanese Chinese characters is different from that of Chinese, but it can be expressed by pseudonyms. A Chinese character usually has multiple pronunciations. For example, "wood" has many pronunciations, such as "き, もく, ぼく". There are two main situations. One is that after Chinese characters were introduced into Japan, the Chinese pronunciation of Chinese characters themselves was also introduced. This pronunciation is called "phonetic reading", such as "もく, ぼく" in the above example; However, when Japanese proper words express their meanings in Chinese characters, the pronunciation becomes "training reading". As an example, "き".

Although Japanese and China speak completely different languages, the Japanese writing system comes from China. The development of China in Tang Dynasty was very prosperous. At that time, there was no writing in Japan. Therefore, the Japanese sent envoys from the Tang Dynasty to China to study language and writing. After thousands of years of changes, although Japanese characters have changed, some of them are still very similar or close to Chinese pronunciation.

There are many local dialects in Japan. Under the influence of mass media such as radio, television and movies, standard Japanese based on Tokyo dialect gradually spread to the whole country, but the dialects spoken by people in Kyoto and Osaka, in particular, continued to prosper and retained their prestige.

Japanese is English Japanese, French Japanese and Arabic Japanese.

Japonês is Portuguese.