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Today I will tell you about hiragana and katakana, the foundations of the Japanese language.
'Hiragana' developed around 1200 years ago to enable women to write literary activities and diaries. At that time, men used kanji for official writing, while women used hiragana for writing about everyday matters.
Later, it was mainly used for particles and auxiliary verbs. It was also used to write foreign words and words from other countries.
'Katakana' originated between 1200 and 600 years ago as a simplified way of writing cursive or cursive script written in Chinese characters. It was also used to write foreign or exotic words.
And today, it is used to write words and technical terms with specific meanings, such as foreign words, technical terms, proper nouns and technical terms.
That wraps up our guide for today.
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