Katakana: Loanwords are often used.
Chinese characters: Words imported from ancient China are often used.
Only Hiragana can really express the meaning of a sentence, but modern Japanese young people don't often use Chinese characters in their daily mobile phone chats. Like neighboring South Korea, Korean can also express the meaning of a sentence after removing Chinese characters. Japanese belongs to Japanese-Koguryo or Buyi, with 65,438+25 million native speakers, accounting for 3. 1% of the world population.
The origin of Japanese has always been a controversial issue. Japanese in Meiji era classified Japanese as "Altaic language family", which was later denied. Homer Hubert and Xiao Ye King (? No Susumu) thinks that Japanese belongs to the Dravidian language family, Nishida Daxiong thinks that Japanese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, Christopher I. Beckwith thinks that Japanese belongs to the Japanese-Koguryo language family, and Leon Angelo serafim thinks that Japanese and Ryukyu can form the Japanese language family. It is generally believed that Japanese was brought to the Japanese archipelago by the Yayoi people in the third century BC, and it was combined with the indigenous languages.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese characters were introduced into Japan. In the Tang Dynasty, I invented a pen name that was popular among women. The official language is classical Chinese, so modern Japanese is greatly influenced by ancient Chinese. Take Showa 3 1 (1956) as an example. In Japanese vocabulary, Japanese accounts for 36.6% and Chinese accounts for 53.6%. In the 39th year of Showa (1964), the National Institute of Japan conducted a survey on 90 magazine terms and obtained Japanese.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese