japanese language

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{i} language spoken in Japan
Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread. Japanese is not closely related to any other language, though a distant genetic kinship to Korean is now thought probable by some scholars, and an even more remote relationship to the Altaic languages is possible. Japanese is first attested in the 8th century AD, when Middle Chinese characters were utilized solely for their phonetic value to write native Japanese words. Japanese retains a huge stock of loanwords from Middle Chinese, long adapted to native phonetics
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japanese language

    Hyphenation

    Jap·a·nese lan·guage

    Turkish pronunciation

    cäpıniz länggwıc

    Pronunciation

    /ˌʤapəˈnēz ˈlaɴɢgwəʤ/ /ˌʤæpəˈniːz ˈlæŋɡwəʤ/
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