A common ancestor of Japanese and Ryukyuan languages or dialects is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from either continental Asia ...

BBC Languages - Learn Japanese in your own time and have fun with A Touch of Japanese. Surprising and revealing facts about the Japanese language, key ...

Much about the roots of the Japanese language is unclear. Some link it to the Altaic language family, which includes Turkish, Mongolian and other languages,  ...

In this course, all the Japanese words and sentences are shown in Rōmaji ( Roman ... Inappropriate use of informal (casual) language could be taken as rude or ...

Learn Japanese with free online Japanese lessons including vocabulary, grammar, hiragana, katakana, kanji and more.

What kind of language is Japanese? In this section you can take Japanese lessons and try speaking the language. You can also learn the characters used to ...

A brief introduction to the Japanese language with details of the number of speakers, where it's spoken and its relationship to other languages.

The language people speak influences how they think about many things. To the Japanese people, their language is one of the ways they define their nationality ...