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I actually have studied Japanese for a while and have no clue what you are describing as extremely long. In hiragana you have 48 letters for sounds which in mo
by samastur 11y ago
I actually have studied Japanese for a while and have no clue what you are describing as extremely long.
In hiragana you have 48 letters for sounds which in most cases are a consonant + vowel. Hence Japanese written in Hiragana or Katakana is shorter than it would be if it was written with a western alphabet. Japanese is probably not the language with shortest words, but neither are they exceptionally long.
- Larrikin 11y agoRomaji is not in use for the most part in Japanese. Romaji would of course be much longer but I was talking about a sentence written out in only kana vs a sentence written out normally with a mixture of kanji and kana.
- kragen 11y agoUsually the difference is about 30% by character count, but you can write the kana smaller before the text is too small to read.