The Roman Alphabet Within the Japanese Writing System: Patterns of Usages and Their Significance
The present study explores the usages of the Roman alphabet within the writing system of Japanese. Japanese is typically said to have three types of characters in its writing system: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. However, the Roman alphabet is also commonly used in Japanese for various purposes al...
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The present study explores the usages of the Roman alphabet within the writing system of Japanese. Japanese is typically said to have three types of characters in its writing system: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. However, the Roman alphabet is also commonly used in Japanese for various purposes along with other types of characters in Japanese. The present study argues that with the recent surge in electronic communication, the writing practice of Japanese is transitioning from vertical writing to horizontal writing, and this transition allows more foreign words and expressions written in the Roman alphabet to be used within Japanese without being converted into katakana loanwords. The present study also discusses the influence of the ever-increasing international interaction to the usages of the Roman alphabet within Japanese.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5bf8624c871c4f73830883f9041f0c272023-01-18T08:21:20ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Linguistica Asiatica2232-33172022-07-0112210.4312/ala.12.2.51-72The Roman Alphabet Within the Japanese Writing System: Patterns of Usages and Their SignificanceHironori Nishi0University of Memphis The present study explores the usages of the Roman alphabet within the writing system of Japanese. Japanese is typically said to have three types of characters in its writing system: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. However, the Roman alphabet is also commonly used in Japanese for various purposes along with other types of characters in Japanese. The present study argues that with the recent surge in electronic communication, the writing practice of Japanese is transitioning from vertical writing to horizontal writing, and this transition allows more foreign words and expressions written in the Roman alphabet to be used within Japanese without being converted into katakana loanwords. The present study also discusses the influence of the ever-increasing international interaction to the usages of the Roman alphabet within Japanese. https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/10810JapaneseloanwordsRoman Alphabetkatakanawriting system |
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| title | The Roman Alphabet Within the Japanese Writing System: Patterns of Usages and Their Significance |
| title_full | The Roman Alphabet Within the Japanese Writing System: Patterns of Usages and Their Significance |
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| title_short | The Roman Alphabet Within the Japanese Writing System: Patterns of Usages and Their Significance |
| title_sort | roman alphabet within the japanese writing system patterns of usages and their significance |
| topic | Japanese loanwords Roman Alphabet katakana writing system |
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