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  2. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century in Malacca, Portuguese traders first heard from Malay and Indonesian the names Jepang, Jipang, and Jepun. [7] In 1577 it was first recorded in English, spelled Giapan . [ 7 ] At the end of the 16th century, Portuguese missionaries came to coastal islands of Japan and created brief grammars and dictionaries of Middle Japanese ...

  3. Japanese language - Wikipedia

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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.

  4. Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Japanese may refer to: . Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia; Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan; Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture

  5. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    JIS X 0208 JIS X 0213 Unicode Name(s) Usage 々: 2139: 1-1-25: 3005: noma (ノマ) kuma (クマ) kurikaeshi (繰り返し) dō no jiten (同の字点). Kanji iteration mark.For example, 様様 could be written 様々.

  6. Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur [1] (JSKL; Japanese: クアラルンプール日本人学校, Kuararunpūru Nihonjin Gakkō, Malay: Sekolah Pelajar-Pelajar Jepun Kuala Lumpur) is a Japanese international school in Saujana Golf and Country Club in Subang, Selangor, Malaysia. [1] The school uses the Japanese Education Curriculum as its ...

  7. Katakana - Wikipedia

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    Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, [2] kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

  8. List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    The Malay language has many loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil, Greek, Latin, Portuguese, Dutch, Siam (Old Thailand), Korean, Deutsch and Chinese languages such ...

  9. List of English words of Malay origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of loanwords in English language, that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Malay language.Many of the words are decisively Malay or shared with other Malayic languages group, while others obviously entered Malay both from related Austronesian languages and unrelated languages of India and China.