Japanese language

The Japanese language (Japanese: 日本語, romanized: Nihongo) is the official language of Japan, in East Asia. Japanese belongs to the Japonic language family...

Japanese Sign Language (日本手話, Nihon Shuwa), also known as JSL or NS, is the main sign language in Japan. In 1878, the first school for the deaf was established...

instead of kanji and kana. The Japanese Wikipedia (Japanese: ウィキペディア日本語版) is the Japanese-language edition of Wiki Simple English. This edition was started in September...

Japanese might mean: Anything related to Japan Japanese language Japanese people Japanese cuisine...

which is the ancestor of Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. The Japanese government says Okinawan is a dialect of Japanese because of politics. When...

different writing systems. Japanese is written with different letters than English. This means fingerspelling in Japanese Sign Language is different from fingerspelling...

of Japan and its biggest city. The Japanese people call their country "Nihon" or "Nippon", which means "the origin of the Sun" in Japanese. Japan is a...

Japanese dialects (日本の方言, Nihon no hōgen) are the dialects of the Japanese language. There are four dialect groups in mainland Japan: Hachijō, Eastern...

Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人, Hepburn: Nikkei Amerikajin) are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who...

Japanese people are a ethnic group and nation native to Japan. They are ethnically closely akin to other peoples of eastern Asia. Japan-Peru Relations...

Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai nihongo) is the oldest known form of the Japanese language. It is difficult to give a precise date when Old Japanese started...

Okinawan Japanese (沖縄和大和口, Uchinaa-yamatuguchi) is a form of the Japanese language in the islands of Okinawa. It comes from Standard Japanese, but many...

Late Old Japanese (中古日本語) is an old form of the Japanese language. It was used in the time known as the Heian Period, between 794 and 1185. The form of...

traditional characters. The Korean language also uses Chinese characters to represent certain words. The Japanese language uses them even more often. These...

Sino-Japanese vocabulary, Chinese-based Japanese words, or kango (kanji: 漢語, hiragana: かんご), are Chinese loanwords in the Japanese language. The two languages...

The Empire of Japan (Japanese : 大日本帝國) also known as Imperial Japan was a historical Nation State and great power during the period from the Meiji Restoration...

the meaning. Finnish is similar in this respect to the Japanese language and Turkic languages. In Finnish, there are 17 cases/word types (sanatyypit)...

Thai, and Spanish language versions of the 'Marugoto (A1) Japanese Online Course' are now available". kansai.jpf.go.jp. Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai...

and dates of some of Japan's national holidays have changed over time. Japanese Imperial year Japanese era names "Calendar" at Japan-guide.com; Bramsen...

words from other languages, for example mainly from French (around 30% to 40% of its words), but also Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish,...