There are over 128 million native Japanese speakers, making it the 9th most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers

Japanese is a high-context language, which means that many things are understood from context and are not explicitly stated, making the role of the three writing scripts even more critical in conveying meaning effectively.

Japanese text can be written vertically, from top to bottom and right to left, or horizontally, from left to right, similar to English. Modern Japanese is most often written horizontally, but vertical writing is still used in many contexts, such as novels, newspapers, and calligraphy.

• Kanji (漢字): These are characters adopted from Chinese. They are logograms, which means that each character represents a word or a part of a word. Kanji characters are used to write most of the content words (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) in Japanese. There are over 2,000 commonly used kanji in modern Japanese.

• Hiragana (ひらがな): This is a syllabary, which means each character represents a syllable sound. Hiragana is used to write grammatical words and word endings (inflections), as well as words for which there are no kanji. It is also used to write native Japanese words.

• Katakana (カタカナ): Like Hiragana, Katakana is also a syllabary. It is used primarily to write foreign words, loanwords, onomatopoeia, and the names of plants, animals, and minerals. It is also often used to convey emphasis, similar to italics in English.

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