japan got its first writing system from adopted chinese characters.
japan got its first writing system from adopted chinese characters.
where did japan get its first writing system from?
adopted chinese characters
the modern japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted chinese characters, and syllabic kana. kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalised japanese words and grammatical elements, and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis. almost all written japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana. because of this mixture of scripts, in addition to a large inventory of kanji characters, the japanese writing system is often considered to be one of the most complicated in use anywhere in the world.
japanese writing system
the invention of the first writing systems is roughly contemporary with the beginning of the bronze age in the late neolithic of the late 4000 bc. the first writing system is generally believed to have been invented in pre-historic sumer and developed by the late 3000's bc into cuneiform. egyptian hieroglyphs, and the undeciphered proto-elamite writing system and indus valley script also date to this era, though a few scholars have questioned the indus valley script's status as a writing system.
history of communication