Tuesday, September 13, 2016

9. Japanese

Japanese is the 9th most spoken language, with 128 million speakers, because the people compromise the language's entire native speaker population. Also, Japanese is stated to be spoken in Okinawa and the neighboring Ryukyu islands.

English texts has been known to have appearing Japanese words since the 16th century. For example, some of the earliest "loanwords" are katana and wacadash, both types of a samurai sword, example  ( year 1613 ), miso ( year 1615 ), shogun ( year 1615 ), and sake ( year 1909 ).

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