In ancient times, although the Japanese had their own language, there was no way to record it and tell ancient stories by word of mouth. According to Japanese Historical Records, in 285, China Baekje doctor Wang Ren brought China's Analects of Confucius, Thousand-character Works and Filial Piety to Japan.

After the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese characters and China culture were officially introduced into Japan. Due to the cultural differences between the two countries, Japanese scholars at that time used Chinese characters to express Japanese pronunciation, which was called "training reading".

Around the 8th century, the Japanese invented "Ye Wan pseudonym" on the basis of the former, borrowed the phonetic function of Chinese and abandoned its structure. In addition, Chinese does not use word forms flexibly and lacks auxiliary verbs. The invention of "Wanye pen name" is a milestone of "harmony and use" in Japanese.

In the 9th century, Katakana and Hiragana were created one after another on the basis of orthographic Chinese characters and cursive Chinese characters, which completely evolved Japanese characters into the era of counting.

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The use of Japanese is mainly in Japan, which is generally calculated according to the population of Japan.

In Japan, the law does not directly stipulate that Japanese is the official language or the national language, but Article 74 of the Court Law (the Court Law) stipulates: "In the courts, Japanese is used." In addition, the Law on Revitalizing Writing and Movable Writing Culture treats "Japanese" and "Mandarin" equally. In addition, all government documents are written only in Japanese, and the contents taught in "Mandarin" in schools at all levels are all in Japanese.

In Japan, Japanese is almost used in broadcasting fields such as television, radio and movies, as well as in publishing fields such as novels, cartoons and newspapers. When foreign TV dramas and movies are broadcast, almost all of them are translated into Japanese, with subtitles or Japanese dubbing.

Outside Japan, Japanese immigrants from Latin America and Hawaii mainly use Japanese, but many of them stop speaking Japanese after three or four generations.

In addition, Angar in Palau uses Japanese as one of its official languages, but no local residents use Japanese in their daily conversations. As an official language, Japanese is only a symbolic scheme to express friendly relations with Japan.

2065438+March 2007 Japanese ranked seventh after English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Indonesian (Malay).

Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese

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