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Japanese Language
How was daily Japanese language like before adapting Kanji? Why is there a need to?
When was Kanji officially adapted to form the current Japanese language?
Why is there a need to adapt Kanji into its original language if the Japanese has been using the older version of Japanese?What are in fact the benefits of the Kanji writing scripts into modern Japanese language?
What was/were the shortcomings of the older version of Japanese which do not have Kanji?
Probably the first main stream of import of Chinese character is in the 5th century by the diplomatic correspondence between China and Japan. The Hiragana and Katakana were created by reference of Chinese characters in the mid 7th century.
The ancient people, not only Asians but also Ancient Egyptians and Europeans, was living in the nonliterate society first. They needed to creat any writing system later. As Phoenicians and ancient Greek people created their letters reffering Egyptian Hieroglyphs, ancient Japanese borrowed Chinese characters first, then created Hiragana and Katakana later.
By the way, the ancient people in northern part of today's China, such as Mongolian, Manchu, and Khitan people, also created their own alphabets with influence of Aramaic alphabet and Chinese character before 10th century (they don't look like Chinese character anymore).
The unique thing is Japanese people didn't abandon or destroy the Chinese character domestically. This is why Japan adopts 3 different letters (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana) even today. Kanji (Chinese character) is an Ideogram or Logogram, and Japanese thinks it is very useful for communication in letters, expressing feeling in novels, and writting (typing) and reading books quickly (Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet and Korean Hangeul are Phonemic letters and Phonogram) .
There must be ancient Japanese language existed in the B.C. era (Old Japanese is different term. This one was used in Nara period, 8th century).
Some scholars find the similarity in SOUND between Manchu (Manchurian is the people in the Liaoning and Inner Mongolia of China) and Japanese language in a play based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Chinese historical Novel - 280 A.D.). And others notice the systematic similarity between Mongolian, Manchu language and Japanese. After Qing dynasty, Manchu people gave up to speak their own language in the 20th century. However, people noticed the GRAMMAR between Manchu language and Japanese are almost same.
It is interesting because Imperial Japan created Manchukuo (puppet country of Japan in Manchuria) in 1930s. And even today Japan invests lots of money in this area. Japan built Japanese language center in Dalian, China (this city was a part of Manchu area before). The call center (telephone suppot center) agents for Japanease people are usually in Dalian (include the one of DELL, HP and IBM's). Maybe there is any reminiscent of ''days gone by'' for Japanese.
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