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imported>John Stephenson
((日本語 ''Nihongo''), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established...)
 
imported>John Dvorak
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(日本語 Nihongo), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established, though Japanese may be related to Korean; written in a combination of Chinese-derived characters (漢字 kanji) and native hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) scripts; about 125,000,000 native speakers worldwide.