Japanese, also known as Japanese (にほんご), is the official language of Japan, with 6.5438+25 million native speakers and 654.38+0.6% of the world population using Japanese.
The origin of Japanese has been debated endlessly. Japanese in Meiji era classified Japanese as Altaic language family, which has been generally denied. Homer Hulbeart and Ohno Jin think Japanese belongs to Dravidian language family, Nishida Takashi thinks Japanese belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family, and Christopher I. Beckwith thinks Japanese belongs to Japanese-Koguryo language family (that is, Fuyu language family).
Evolution of pseudonyms
The earliest written cultural relics in Japan are about 1 century. At that time, Japanese scholars used Chinese characters to express Japanese sounds, which was called "training reading". On this basis, the pseudonym Ye Wan was developed, which first appeared in the earliest Japanese poetry collection "Ye Wan Collection".
This method borrows the phonetic function of Chinese and abandons the structure of Chinese. In addition, Chinese does not use word forms flexibly and lacks auxiliary verbs. In the 9th century, Katakana and Hiragana based on China cursive script came out one after another, which completely evolved Japanese characters into the era of notation.