subject: Japanese Language And Japanese Translation [print this page] Japanese is considered to be a language similar to Chinese due to the resemblance of the languages letters. Japanese is spoken by more than 130 million people living in Japan. This language is a part of the Japanese- Ryukyuan language family, also called the Japonic family. Though Japanese is said to be related to numerous languages, there is no united opinion about this fact. It is said to be a mora- timed language, where mora is a unit of sound that decides the timing and stress to be laid on words in some languages
Japanese translation is indeed difficult if you consider that it is a blend of three scripts used together while writing. The first script consists of developed Chinese characters known as kanji and the other two scripts include improved Chinese characters called hiragana and katakana. When Japanese text is fed in the computer, a Latin alphabet called romaji is made use of in modern Japanese language. This is true in case of company logos or names, advertisements and so on. For numbers, Arabic numerals are used. However, the old Sino- Japanese numerals are also normally used.
This way a person doing Certified Japanese Translation must be aware of the above scripts. He or she must understand the language well and be able to speak it fluently too. Professional translation companies hire and train talented language experts for completing such translation assignments. Whenever you have to get a document translated from or to Japanese, ensure you go to the experts.
