RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Romanization Of Japanese, Katakana, Hiragana
4 Feb 2015
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Over 6800 islands that make up japan, entire country about size of germany, life expectancy is 83 in japan. Largest in the world still: over 23% of pop is over 65. Ranked 10th largest in the world japan right now. 4 ways to write japanese: kanji= chinese characters cuz come from china. Chinese characters are often more complicated but jap ones are often simpler: hiragana: its like an alphabet. You can technically write all of japanese with. When you study japanese, you learn this first: katakana: like hiragana, its an alphabet. Much sharper characters than hiragana: romaji: you can write japanese entirely with english letters. Oshiri is the english way, the first asian thing is kanji then 2nd is hiragana. Oshiri means ass, or like bottom: most jap is a combo of kanji and hiragana and some katakana.
