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Japanese Writing Japanese is the ninth most spoken language in the world with 125 millions of speakers. It is spoken in just one country, Japan. The anterior eight positions are spoken in an amount that goes from two to five countries. The Japanese language consists of three main writings which are Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. There is a fourth writing but is almost unused. Even though the writings are different, they are read with the same pronunciation. The first writing is Hiragana and it is the basis of the Japanese language. It consists of forty seven syllables which are simple to write. The pronunciation is as in Spanish. For example, the “a” is pronounced as in “father”, the “i” is pronounced as in “feet”, the “u” as in “mood”, the “e” as in “met