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| Gareth Groupie United States Joined 5457 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cherokee, French | Message 1 of 5 25 June 2010 at 9:38pm | IP Logged |
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I am not sure where this ought to go so I have put it in general. The question/topic is when you write Japanese which writting system do you use?
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| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6438 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 2 of 5 25 June 2010 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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A few! Hiragana and about 2000 Chinese characters normally, plus katakana occasionally. Also, some Latin abbreviations and Arabic numbers are used.
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| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5573 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 5 26 June 2010 at 2:49am | IP Logged |
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You use the Japanese writing system, which is the only writing system used to write Japanese.
The Japanese writing system has symbols that are variously classified as kanji (ideographic), hiragana or katakana (syllabic). Roman letters are occasionally used, typically for abbreviations, and Arabic (Indian) numerals are quite frequently used. But these are all pieces of the one modern Japanese writing system. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6380 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 4 of 5 27 June 2010 at 5:50am | IP Logged |
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It is helpful to think of the three kinds of symbols as sort of like upper and lower case letters in English in the way that both are used in the same sentences and you need both to properly construct the language. After that it's probably best to ditch the analogy to avoid getting confused.
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| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6385 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 5 of 5 27 June 2010 at 4:47pm | IP Logged |
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Mostly emoji these days
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