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Similar or different?

The written language can sometimes differ very much. Swedish and Japanese are two such written languages. Actually there is nothing that is similar between this languages, but the differences are really interesting. Swedish vs. Japanese Japanese have four different written languages kanji, romaji, hiragana and katakana. Each has their own area of use. The basis	The Japanese and Swedish written language are very different!
of Japanese language are two, hiragana and katakana. These are phonetically written Both of these have 46 signs and together they are called Kana. Swedish is based on the Latin written language and have 28 signs. It came with the teaching of Christianity and that is why the bible in many respects is named the Swedish ledger. The Japanese and Swedish written language are very different!

Japanese signs
Kanji-signs were borrowed from China during the 600s. Each sign has a certain meaning, but they often have many different pronunciations.
Romaji is Japanese written with Latin letters. Romanji is used for example in road signs and in passports and units of measurements.
Hiragana means “female hand” and was invented because the men did not think that women could learn the advanced Chinese written language. Hiragana is used to write domestic Japanese word.
Katakana means “ male hand” and is used to spell foreign words. This written language is also a counterpart to our italic text.

Language differences
Swedish and Japanese have a lot of language differences. Compared to Swedish which is a S-V-O-language (subject-verb-object), Japanese is a S-O-V-language (subject-object-verb). The sentence “she bought a car” becomes “she a car bought” in Japanese.
Compared to Swedish Japanese is a very hard language to learn. There are no short cuts what so ever, you have to learn it dash by dash and sign by sign. Just to read a newspaper you have to know around 2000 signs.
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