Japanese Translation Software

Translating Japanese

Language Information that will help you in translating Japanese

The Japanese language is spoken by more than 125 million people with most living in Japan.  

The Japanese language is agglutinative; which means it forms words by putting together basic elements, called morphemes. Morphemes retain their original forms and meanings with little change during the combination process. A morpheme is a distinctive linguistic unit of relatively stable meaning that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts. 

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Japanese Language Facts to Consider when Translating Japanese

Japanese language compounds words, for example compounding consists of combining two or more words or word elements having their own lexical meaning (having a substantial meaning of their own) to produce a new unit that functions as a single word. Since the Chinese characters are extremely productive in their ability to generate new words, compounding plays a major role in Japanese word-formation. By combining a stock of a few thousand characters, hundreds of thousands of compound words are created. 

You will find the spoken Japanese lacks tones, has a musical accent and frequently stresses all syllables the equally. There is no distinction between singular and plural nouns. In the Japanese language nouns do not have a gender like you find in many of the Romance languages. You well also find there are no relative pronouns in the language.

Japanese sentences are structured differently than English, you will find the word order different, for example verbs are usually at the end of a sentence. Many Japanese words end in vowels which determines the rhythm and structure of the language.

In Japanese the form of the word can convey respect, especially to social superior. Varying constructions of words are used to indicate differences in the social status among the individual speaking, the individual addressed, and the individual spoken about.

The language uses compounding and it can be more difficult to translate. Even the format of the Japanese language is different, they write in columns instead of left to right like the European system. Over the years the Roman alphabet has been increasingly used to transcribe the Japanese language. Due to the several thousand characters and two sets of kana that are necessary for reading Japanese literature and periodicals, a need for simplification was felt when universal literacy became a national goal. Just after World War II, many kanji characters were simplified, and the number generally used was limited to about 2,000. In another reform of the standards for the language, phonetic kana characters are now used to correspond more closely to modern pronunciation than previously was the case. Due to the large number of Japanese speakers and the high level of cultural, economic, and political development of the Japanese people, Japanese is now one of the leading languages of the world.

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