Writing

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The Japanese language writing system is phonetic. Each character represents a sound unlike in English where combinations of characters create sounds.

There are 3 'alphabets' in Japanese: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Romanji is the writing system used to express Japanese in Roman letters. In this wiki I will use Hiragana, Katakana and Romanji.