Monday, August 17, 2015

Japanese Writing System (Hiragana Script)

Japanese writing system use unique scripts (referred to as kana) called Hiragana and Katakana. Differ with the english language that consist consonant and vowel, every script of kana is unique for every vowel given.Hiragana is the basic of Japanese script, consist of 46 basic script, represent for K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W and pure vowel.  Every letter made 5 different syllable script like Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke and Ko. Despite for letter Y that just made 3 different syllable script which is Ya, Yu and Yo and letter W that made just 2 different syllable script which is Wa and Wo. One special character is N, that is the only consonant avalaible in japan language.




As for letter G, Z, D, B and P are derived from the basic K, S, T and H with addition of tenten and maru known as Hiragana Dakuon. Double consonant like Kya, Kyu and Kyo are made with added the basic script with the Ya/Yu/Yo script but written in smaller font after the basic script, this known as Hiragana Yoon.





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