The Roman Alphabet Within the Japanese Writing System: Patterns of Usages and Their Significance

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hironori Nishi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2022-07-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Subjects:
Japanese
loanwords
Roman Alphabet
katakana
writing system
Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/10810

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