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The origin of Japanese has been debated endlessly. Japanese in Meiji era classified Japanese as Altaic language family, which has been generally denied. Mo Hulbert and Xiao Ye King think that Japanese belongs to Dalopita language family, Nishida Takashi thinks that Japanese belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family, and Bai Guisi thinks that Japanese belongs to Japan-Koguryo language family (that is, Fuyu language family).

Leon Angelo serafim believes that Japanese and Ryukyu can form a Japanese language family. There is a hypothesis that Austronesian language family, Zhuang-Dong language family and Japanese language family can form Austronesian-Taiwanese language family, that is, they are all homologous.

In the Tang Dynasty, I invented a pseudonym popular among women, and the official language was classical Chinese, so modern Japanese was greatly influenced by ancient Chinese. Take Showa 3 1 Example Chinese Dictionary as an example.

In Japanese vocabulary, Japanese accounts for 36.6% and Chinese accounts for 53.6%. In the 39th year of Showa, the National Research Institute of Japan investigated 90 kinds of magazine terms, and reached the conclusion that Japanese accounted for 36.7%, Chinese for 47.5%, and western languages for nearly 10%.

The expression of characters, writing methods and books (paper, etc. ), known as Japanese, is a language mainly used by Japanese islanders and people. Although there is no accurate statistics of Japanese-speaking population, the population in Japan and the overseas Japanese population living outside Japan are calculated.

The number of Japanese speakers should exceed1.300 million. Almost all Japanese nationals born and raised in Japan speak Japanese as their mother tongue. In addition, for the deaf, there is Japanese sign language corresponding to Japanese grammar and phonology system.