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Is Japanese a tonal language?
Japanese is not a tonal language; rather, it has two pitches -- "high" and "low". Other and that, it does not use tones to distinguish words as in Chinese.
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Is Chinese and Japanese language the same?
Not at all. The only similarity is that Japanese borrowed the Chinese characters, called Kanji. Those are the complicated looking ones. Hiragana and Katakana are derived from …Kanji, but are just sound representation. Spoken, Japanese is much more flat sounding and all the characters are pronounced differently. Chinese uses different tones, which are shown when writen in romanized text. That shows the way the word sounds, and you move your voice all around your vocal scale. Japanese Roomaji is again the romanized version, but does not have any sound changes. Absolutely not. Even the words for China and Japan are different in the two languages. In Chinese, the word for Japan is Riben, while the Japanese word for Japan is Nihon. The Chinese have only one "alphabet" which contains different symbols for different words. In Japan, they have many alphabets. One alphabet in Japan uses the same Chinese characters that China uses. But Japan also has the Roman alphabet (abcdefg.... z) and another alphabet used for words borrowed from other languages, such as the borrowed English words ice, computer, and wife. Also, the Chinese language is based on tones. There are five different tones which includes one rising tone, one falling tone, one steady tone, one tone which dips, and one neutral tone. In the Chinese language, one word, such as "ma" can mean completely different things depending on which tone is used. One tonal form of "ma" means mother, another means "horse", another means "scold", and another is the word used at the end of a question. So, you could ask "did your mother scold the horse" by saying ma ma ma ma. This use of tones makes Mandarin Chinese one of the hardest languages for an English speaking person to learn. (MORE)
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Chinese language and Japanese is the same?
No, they are drastically different. Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language, while Japanese is either classified as Altaic or isolate. Japanese, however, did import their writing s…ystem from China, and was a purely verbal language before. Also, they are both Asian. If you ask that question around them, will get very upset because China doesn't like Japan. (MORE)
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Where is the Japanese language from?
The Japanese language originated in Japan around 400 AD, but it was a combination of several things from outside sources. The ancient Emishi (Jomon) people, who were thought t…o have spoken an Austric language, made a contribution; the Ainu were Uralics who joined the Emishi. The Kumaso and the Hayato of ancient Kyushu were a combination of Emishi and Polynesians (from Guam and Luzon, but the Hayato were from the Ryukyus), and gave Japanese its Polynesian look. From Shandong and Jiangsu, the Altaic Jiuli people (Dongyi) moved to Kyushu and started the Japanese Imperial House (Himiko said she was descended from Duke Tai of Zhou). Some of the people of the Korean kingdoms of Gaya and Baekche (the Kofun culture) invaded Japan. Some say Japanese is closest to the extinct Altaic language of Buyeo, which was spoken in northern Korea. All in all, Japanese can be described as a mixture of Old Korean, Polynesian, and Austric Emishi. (MORE)
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Tagalog language has similar to Japanese language?
TAGALOG AND JAPANESE WAS NOT SIMILAR. Tagalog (A branch of Filipino language) was connected to Austronesian languages, while Japanese was connected to Japonic languages. Their… handwritting was very different to each other too. Tagalog writing was using Latin letters and Baybayin (now extinct). Japanese was using Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana Japanese language, was pretty hard in writting; but in word construction, Tagalog was a brain-crusher. (MORE)
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What is better the you phone 5c or 5s?
the 5s because it has better service but it dosent have diffrent colrs just silver gold and black
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What careers use the Japanese language?
Teaching Japanese could use the Japanese language. Other things such as pretty much any job in Japan use it, as well as writing Japanese cartoons, or literature.Ê
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If french is a romance language what is Japanese?
Japanese is generally regarded as being one of the Japonic languages, of which there are not very many -- just two, in fact: Japanaese and Ryukyuan. The wider classification… of Japonic is the subject of a deal of controversy, If you are interested in pursuing this further, start by taking a look at the Wikipedia article "Classification of Japonic". (MORE)
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How are you in Japanese language?
お元気ですか？- ogenki desuka? (polite form) 元気ですか？- genki desuka? いかがですか - ikaga desuka? is another one that may be handy to know, but not com…monly heard (MORE)
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What is the answer to 20c plus 5 equals 5c plus 65?
20c + 5 = 5c + 65 Divide through by 5: 4c + 1 = c + 13 Subtract c from both sides: 3c + 1 = 13 Subtract 1 from both sides: 3c = 12 Divide both sides by 3: c = 4