Joseph Greenburg first cited this language as evidence of his thesis that all subject-object-verb languages are postpositional.
Joseph Greenburg first cited this language as evidence of his thesis that all subject-object-verb languages are postpositional. In the 20th century, a certain country's government mandated that any newspaper that used words that were not part of the 1,945 most common words in this language had to print them with a special reading aid that facilitated their pronunciation. In medieval times, the country using this langauge adopted the script of kanbun to translate texts into it. In this language, it is customary to insert particles, such as "ga," when answering a question. Words that are brought into this language may be written in Romaji. For 10 points, identify this language which employs the hiragana and katakana writing scripts.
Joseph Greenburg first cited this language as evidence of his thesis that all subject-object-verb languages are postpositional.
Japanese or Nihongo