Rose-Innes, A: English-Japanese Conversation Dictionary -

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Excerpt from English-Japanese Conversation Dictionary: Preceded by a Few Elementary Notions of Japanese Grammar

All Japanese writing begins at the top right-hand corner and is written in columns downwards. Odd words and short sentences are sometimes written in horizontal lines: they are usually, though not always, to be read from right to left. It is impor tant to notice the little accents (or which modify certain sounds; these modified sounds are called m'gori These accents show us that in J apa nese ya, for instance, is only a modified pronuncia tion of ka and not a totally different sound. This may very frequently be observed when words enter into composition; thus, from akai (red) and kane (metal) we have aka-gene (copper).

The following syllables are written by means of two kana symbols.

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