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The Hiraganas!
Hiragana are syllables belonging to one of the two syllabary alphabets of the Japanese language: Kana (hiragana and katakana).
The represent the sounds of Japanese; that is, every word in the language is made up of kana!
Hiragana is only used to write words of Japanese origin.
The katakana them, are used to write the words of foreign origin, the name of certain animals or the words resulting from the slang (the language of the street).
But why two syllabary alphabets?!
Simply to be able to recognize words of foreign origin more easily.
This makes it possible to avoid translation errors (because there are foreign words which are pronounced in the same way as certain typical Japanese words) and at the same time, to translate them more easily.
In the tables below, is all the hiragana.
The primordial hiragana
The syllabaries wi and we are made clearer, because they are simply not used at all!
Secondary hiragana
As you will have noticed, secondary hiragana are not very different from primary hiragana... only one difference... the dakuten: " and the maruten: °
These two small symbols make it possible to transform certain consonants into others (this avoids creating other kana...).
k + " : g | s + " :z | t + " : d or z | h + " : b | h + ° : p
These different letters, such as k and g, are sometimes difficult to separate in a sentence because they sound very similar, especially with the accent. So you have to be very careful. Because you will see later that a simple dakuten/maruten can considerably change the meaning of a sentence...
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