Japanese Language Types
Romanization systems for typing in japanese.
Japanese language types. But even if you ask for it nicely people won t give it to you. Now that we have installed the microsoft ime let s try it out. You take type 1 japanese. Some link it to the altaic language family which includes turkish mongolian and other languages but it also shows similarities to austronesian languages like polynesian.
Type 1 is the only real kind. Japanese language much about the roots of the japanese language is unclear. Nihon shiki 日本式 the hepburn system and kunrei shiki 訓令式. It s the only kind you need to know.
Ruby characters or furigana are also used for kanji words in modern publications these would generally be omitted for well known kanji the text is in the traditional tategaki vertical writing style. Japanese novel using kanji kana majiri bun text with both kanji and kana the most general orthography for modern japanese. In short the nihon shiki is a transliteration of the japanese writing system the hepburn system was historically. It is read down the columns and from right to left like.
So you take it.