Japanese leid

Japanese
日本語 Nihongo
"Nihongo" ("Japanese") in Japanese script
Pronunciation	/nihoɴɡo/: [ɲ̟ihõŋɡo]
Native tae	Japan
Ethnicity	Japanese (Yamato)
Native speakers	~128 mulȝeon (2020)
Leid faimily	Japonic Japanese
Early forms	Old Japanese Early Middle Japanese Late Middle Japanese Early Modern Japanese
Writin seestem	Mixed scripts of Kanji (Chinese character) and Kana (Hiragana, Katakana) Japanese Braille
Signed forms	Signed Japanese
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Japan (de facto) Palau  ∟Template:Kintra data Angaur
Recognised minority leid in	Palau  ∟Template:Kintra data Angaur
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ja
ISO 639-2	jpn
ISO 639-3	jpn
Glottolog	nucl1643  leain oot Hachijo
Linguasphere	45-CAA-a

Japanese (日本語 "Nihon-go" or "Nippon-go" in Japanese) is the leid spak on the island kintra o Japan, in Eastren Asie.

Japan haes juist the five vouel soonds. They are /a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/. Japanese haes juist the ae soond atween L an R, insteid o the twa soonds that Scots haes. That's hou it's difficult for mony Japanese fowk tae say the Scots 'R' an 'L'. Japanese haes a soond no aft foond in Scots that's for ordinar wrat Tsu. Forby thon, vouels can be baith short or lang. For example, benkyousuru （勉強する）(tae study) haes a lang "o".

In Japanese, the verb comes at the end o the sentence, an the subject's at the beginnin. The subject is aften implee'd bi the context an can be left oot.

In Japanese, Japan is cried Nihon (日本), an the Japanese leid is cried Nihongo (日本語) (-go means leid). Whiles the wirds Nippon and Nippongo is uised an aw; these wirds is thocht o as mair nationalist the nou, while Nihon is a mair neutral wird.

Writin seestem

The Japanese leid uises three writin seestems, kanji (漢字), katakana (カタカナ) an hiragana (ひらがな). Katakana is for writin soond effecs an wirds fae ootwi o Japan. Hiragana is for writin wirds fae inside Japan. Baith writin seestems haes seembols that means a seelable. Katakana haes strauchter lips an shairper neuks nor hiragana. Hiragana haes mair bowes nor katakana.

The third wey tae write, cried kanji (漢字), whaur ilka wird or idea haes a pictur chairacter taen fae Cheenese. For tae can read Japanese newspapers, students maun learn 2 ,136 kanji. Mony kanji is made fae mair smaw, sempler kanji. Kanji haes unalike soonds whan uised in unalike weys, but ilka kanji still haes anerly certaint weys it can be read.

Written Japanese disna hae spaces atween wirds, sae kanji helps sinder wirds in a sentence.

Japanese can be wrat in twa weys:

1. Fae left tae richt, muivin fae the tap tae the dowp o the page (same as in Scots).
2. Fae tap tae dowp, muivin fae the richt tae the left o the page.

Sentences in Japanese is makkit like this: subject, object, verb. For example, A ate an aiple the day (今日、私はりんごを食べました) wad be in this order The day, A an aiple ate.

Examples

Here's some examples o Japanese wirds :

• 人 (hito) : body
• 女 (onna) : wifie
• 男 (otoko) : man
• 子 (ko) : bairn
• 水 (mizu) : watter
• こんにちは (konnichiwa) : hello (in the mids o the day or efternuin)
• さようなら (sayounara) : guidbye
• はい (hai) : aye
• いいえ (iie) : no

Fremmit airtins

• Japanese dictionar
• List o Japanese Kanji chairacters Archived 2007-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Kana Copybeuk (PDF)
• Japanese Coorse