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Because the Japanese spoken language is not based on the Latin alphabet, but rather a specific syllabary that make up 50 syllables (in which the ordering is referred to as gojū-on [五十音], similar to how the rest of the world spell their ABCs, but in Japanese, the order is in A-I-U-E-O). For written scripts it would reflect that in two different styles: hiragana and katakana. In addition, Chinese ideographs (also referred to as kanji [漢字]) are also used in conjunction with the aforementioned for specific terms (e.g. certain nouns and verbs) to complete a sentence.

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