Japanese leid

Japanese (日本語 "Nihon-go" or "Nippon-go" in Japanese) is the leid spak on the island kintra o Japan, in Eastren Asie. The leid is uised by up aboot 128 million fowk. Japanese belangs tae the Japonic ilk, sic an sae wi Ryukyuan. In maugre o ettle, thaurs no definitive airtin wi ony ither leid ilks. Thae proponit include Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, an the noo believt discreditit Altaic. No ane o thir theories hiv gained traction.

Japanese is an Agglutinative leid, wae five monophthong vouel soonds. It kythes Gemination an a wird can be changefu by the accentit syllable (Pitch-accent)

Wird order in Japanese is for ordinar Subject-Object-Verb, hou-an-ither particles can be uised tae tirl sentences orders, an add heartit virr tae a thocht as weel. Benon that, Japanese kythes a pernicketie system o honorifics an siclike mensie gab.

In Japanese, Japan is cried Nihon (日本), an the Japanese leid is cried Nihongo (日本語) (whaur -go means leid). Whiles the wirds Nippon an 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 maistly for writin soond effecs an wirds fae ootwi o Japan. Hiragana is for maistly writin wirds fae inside Japan an verb conjugations. Baith writin systems haes symbols that means a seelable, wi the exception o ん that constitutes a nasal mora. 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, whaur this happens thir smaller ‘’kanji’’ are cried ‘’radicals’’ . 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:
 Fae left tae richt, muivin fae the tap tae the dowp o the page (same as in Scots).
 Fae tap tae dowp, muivin fae the richt tae the left o the page.

Phonology

Vowels

  Front Central Back Close     Mid     Open   

Japan haes juist the five vouel soonds. They are /a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/. Forby thon, vouels can be baith short or lang. For example, benkyousuru （勉強する）(tae study) haes a lang "o".

Consonants
 Bilabial Alveolar Alveolo-palatal Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal Nasal   () () () Stop          Affricate ()  () ()  () Fricative ()    ()  () ()  Liquid  Semivowel   Special moras , 
Japanese consonants cannae endure on thir ain (wi the exception o the Moraic nasal (ん), as sic it’s classified as a mora-timed leid.
 Examples 
Here's some examples o Japanese wirds :
 人 (hito) : body
 女 (onna) : wifie or wumman
 男 (otoko) : man
 子 (ko) : bairn
 水 (mizu) : watter
 こんにちは (konnichiwa) : hello (in the mids o the day or efternuin), sic as “guid day”
 さようなら (sayounara) : fareweel/guidbye
 はい (hai) : aye
 いいえ (iie) : no

 Example Screed 

Article 1 o the Universal Declaration o Human Richts in Japanese:

すべて
の
人間
は、
生まれながら
に
して
自由
で
あり、
かつ、
尊厳
と
権利
と
に
ついて
平等
で
ある。
人間
は、
理性
と
良心
と
を
授けられて
おり、
互い
に
同胞
の
精神
を
もって
行動
しなければ
ならない。

Aw human beins are born lowse and equal in deegnity an richts. They are endowed wi raison and conscience and shoud act thewarts ilka ither in a speerit o britherheid.

 References 

 Fremmit airtins 

 Japanese dictionar
 List o Japanese Kanji chairacters 
 Kana Copybeuk (PDF)
 Japanese Coorse

Category:Leids o Japan