Overview of Japanese Language

This post, I am going to summarize a bit regarding the Japanese language, the Malaysian way. Japanese language was from the Japonic language family back to 2,700 years ago. There are 126million people speaks Japanese, which rank it to top 13 rank in the most speaks language in the list. It was said that the language once include the Chinese character around 1,200 years ago and slowly developed to the modern language itself. Though there are 40% of the language involving Chinese character, which we will discuss later. Based on a Japanese learner research conducted by Japan Foundation, there are currently more than 30 Japanese language schools as listed on the Japan Foundation website, which in year 2018, it was recorded in Malaysia - 212 organization that provides Japanese Study, -with about 40,000 learners, -taught by 485 native and local Japanese teachers. Overall, we can see a number of 26,000 Japanese currently stays in Malaysia for different purposes, which includes Malaysia My Second Home Plan (MM2H), expatriate that works in Malaysia, spouse or child of the expatriate and Malaysian, and tourism. With over 1,400 Japanese enterprises recorded in Malaysia, it further proved that the needs of Japanese language to help boost the industries in Malaysia. As mentioned above, Japanese language can be broken down to 4 categories 1- Hiragana(あいうえお)- Local Japanese words, handwriting system can be identified as more curvy 2- Katakana(アイウエオ)- Imported word which transformed to be as Japanese word, with Japanese pronunciation. handwriting system can be identified as more square. 3- Kanji(漢字)- Chinese character, which same exactly the same as Chinese language, or some still remain as ancient Chinese character, which now no more being used in Chinese language. 4-Romaji(A,I,U,E,O)- Romanized spelling that used to represent the Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji pronunciation. Example of above 1. あさ Hiragana writing of "Morning" in Japanese local word 2.モーニング the word "Morning" in English(imported word) 3.朝 Kanji of "Morning" 4. a. ASA Romaji pronunciation of "Morning" Japanese in local word b. MOO-NING-GU Romaji pronunciation of "Morning" for imported word Again for the category 1 and 2, there are constructed as below by what we called 五十音順・ごじゅうおんじゅん・GOJYUUONJYUN, which means 50 pronunciation characters. To be exact, it consists 46 characters in Modern Japanese Language as below 5 singular vowels (A, I, U, E, O), pronounced similar as Army(A--), Indigo(I--), Uber(U--), Elephant(E--), Orange(O--) 40 consonant vowel union- Which consist of (K,S,T,N,H,M,Y,R,W- prefix that will then combine with 5 singular vowels to be form one pronunciation)eg: KA, KI, KU, KE,KO 1 singular consonant (N), Pronounced as ending sound for N and M, which similar as Hmm For Hiragana, you can refer to the video which I created long ago.

Next sharing, we shall talk more about the Hiragana and Katakana, writing, pronunciation, with some vocabulary with combination of Hiragana character. See you next! Jya mata.