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Kirwan, Leigh – Babel, 2005
The historical development of written Japanese has resulted in an extremely complex system. Modern Japanese is usually written in logosyllabic script consisting of a combination of "kanji," the Chinese characters, and "kana," the Japanese syllables originally formed from them. There are two types of "kana," the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Romanization, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability