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History The history of the Japanese language comes from a diversity of different nation's languages over time. In the ancient times, invaders of japan who made an effort to take power in Japan slowly added bits and pieces from their native language to make up what is known today as the modern Japanese language. As a result of Japan itself being such a unique and interesting country culturally, many nations and people around the world have strived to research and learn the Japanese language. Japanese is the current 4th most desired-to-learn language in the world.

The modern Japanese writing system uses three main scripts: [|//Kanji//], ideographs from [|Chinese characters] , [|//Hiragana//], used for native Japanese words, and [|//Katakana//], used for foreign borrowings and in sometimes to replace "difficult" kanjis of for emphasis. [|Kanji]  ( 漢字  [|?] ) are used to write the following: [|nouns] , including [|Japanese names]  stems of <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|adjectives] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> and <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|verbs] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|Hiragana] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> ( 平仮名  [|?] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">) are used to write the following: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|okurigana] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> (  送り仮名  [|?] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">)— <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|inflectional] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> endings for <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|adjectives] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> and <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|verbs] <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|joshi] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> (  助詞  [|?] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">)— <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|grammatical particles] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> words that lack a kanji, where the kanji is obscure, difficult to typeset, is considered too difficult (as in children's books) <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|furigana] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> (  振り仮名  [|?] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">)—phonetic renderings of kanji. Furigana <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">may aid children or nonnative speakers or clarify nonstandard, rare, or ambiguous readings. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|Katakana] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> ( 片仮名  [|?] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">) are used to write the following: foreign words and names commonly used animals, plants or objects whose kanji are rare, such as tokage (lizard), bara (rose) and rōsoku (candle) <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|onomatopoeia] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> emphasis, much like <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">[|italicisation] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> in European languages. Most Japanese sentences (like "the cat sat on the mat") contain both kanji and hiragana. Kanji is used for nouns (words like "cat" or "mat") and the stems of verbs (words like "sat"), and hiragana for the endings of verbs and for grammatical particles (small, common words such as the Japanese equivalents to the English "on" and "to"). Foreign borrowings are normally spelled in katakana. Japanese mainly use hiragana or kanji, while katakana is used to translate a foreign word to Japanese characters. The choice of which type of writing to use depends on a number of factors, including standard conventions, readability, and stylistic choices.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diaiects <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Japanese scholar generally divide modern japanese dialects into three major groups those of eastern chin

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