Japanese Language In Japanese
Since the mid 20th century no nation other than japan has used japanese as a first or a second language.
Japanese language in japanese. There are also some 1 5 million japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad mainly in north and south america who have varying degrees of proficiency in japanese. In horizontal rows from the top to the bottom of the page or in traditional japanese style i e. In japanese japan is called nihon 日本 and the language is called nihongo 日本語 go means language. Yamato words which in scholarly contexts is sometimes referred to as wago 和語 or rarely 倭語 i e.
In vertical columns from the right to the left side of the page. The japanese writing system consists of three different character sets. In western style i e. It is primarily spoken throughout the japanese archipelago.
Sometimes the words nippon and nippongo are also used but both words are now thought of as more nationalist and nihon is a more neutral word.