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Japanese has three main writing systems namely Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
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10 Interesting Fact About The Japanese Language
10 Interesting Fact About The Japanese Language
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Japanese has three main writing systems namely Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
Japanese does not have a verb that specifically shows time or aspects.
In Japanese, all numbers from 1 to 10 have a unique name.
Japanese has many absorption words from English, such as Konpyuta (Computer) and Toreningu (Training).
Japanese has many forms of polite language to talk to people who are older or higher status.
The word arigato which means thanks in Japanese actually comes from the Portuguese Obrigado.
Japanese has many different third people pronouns depending on the relationship between the speaker and the listener.
Japanese does not have articles like A or the in English.
Japanese uses the grammar of subject-object-editations, different from English that uses subject-predicate-object.
Japanese has many words that come from Chinese, and most of these words are written in kanji.
