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• Romanization of Japanese
• History
• Modern systems
• Hepburn
• Legal status
• Variants of Hepburn romanization
• Obsolete variants
• Features of Hepburn romanization
• Hepburn romanization charts
• For extended katakana
• Nihon-shiki
• Nipponsiki—ISO 3602 Strict
• Kunrei-shiki
• Legal status
• Usage
• Kunrei-shiki spellings of kana
• Permitted exceptions
• JSL
• Non-standard romanization
• Long vowels
• Anglicization
• Archaic variants
• Romanization of Japanese names
• Example words written in each romanization system
• Differences among romanizations (Japanese Alphabet)
• part 2
• part 3
• part 4
• part 5
• part 6
• part 7
• part 8
• part 9
• part 10
• This chart shows the significant differences among them.
• Kana without standardised forms of romanization
• Historical romanizations
• Alphabet letter names in Japanese
• Japanese writing system
• Usage of scripts
• Direction of writing
• Nuances
• Romanization
• Lettering styles
• Shodo
• Edomoji
• Mincho
• East Asian sans-serif typeface
• Variant writing systems
• Gyaru-moji
• Hentaigana
• Man'yogana
• Japanese numerals
• Basic numbering in Japanese
• Powers of 10
• Large numbers
• Decimal fractions
• Formal numbers
• Japanese counter word
• Table of the traditional numerals
• Common counters by category
• Euphonic changes
• Exceptions
• Ordinal numbers
• Periods of time
• Japanese phonology
• Consonants
• Vowels
• Phonological processes
• Consonant processes
• Weakening
• Palatalization and affrication
• Moraic nasal
• Moraic obstruent
• /d, z/ neutralization
• Trill
• Vowel processes
• Devoicing
• Nasalization
• Glottal stop insertion
• Phonotactics
• Accent
• Japanese grammar
• Some distinctive aspects of modern Japanese sentence structure
• Word order: head final and left branching
• Word class system
• Japanese as a topic-prominent language
• Liberal omission of the subject of a sentence
• Sentences, phrases and words
• Word classification
• Controversy over the characterization of nominal adjectives
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• Demonstratives
• Conjugable words
• Stem forms
• Verbs
• sa-group
• ka-group
• Transitive and intransitive verbs
• Adjectives
• Types of adjective
• Syntactic analysis of adjectives
• Inflection
• Adverb forms
• Polite forms
• Terminology
• The copula (? da)
• stem forms of the copula
• conjugations of the copula
• Euphonic changes (?? onbin)
• Colloquial contractions
• spelling changes
• Other independent words
• Adverbs
• Conjunctions and interjections
• Ancillary words
• Particles
• Topic, theme, and subject: ? (wa) and ? (ga)
• Thematic wa
• Contrastive wa
• Exhaustive ga
• Objective ga
• Objects, locatives, instrumentals: ? (o), ? (ni), ? (de), ? (e)
• Quantity and extents: ? (to), ? (mo), ? (ka), ? (ya), ?? (kara), ?? (made)
• Coordinating: ? (to), ? (ni), ? (yo)
• Final: ? (ka), ? (ne), ? (yo) and related
• Compound particles
• Auxiliary verbs
• some pure auxiliary verbs
• some helper auxiliary verbs

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