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Also, even though kana were used, that didn't mean kanji weren't used as well.

If they don't simplify it people just won't use it, when they can use Hangul or kana.

Contemporary Japanese books, except those written for young children, use a combination of kana and Chinese characters.

To my knowledge kana were adopted to the spoken language rather than the other way around.

This is not quite accurate, kana are basically just an alphabet (two alphabets actually) that can be used to write Japanese.

Publications for older children frequently use kanji with small kana to the right side called furigana for the kanji they're still learning.

The Japanese identified the problem and created a vocalic language from Chinese, the kana.

They wound [homograph] up mixing the two with Chinese ideograms setting the intended theme followed by phonetic kana to particularize pronunciation and grammar.

Japanese can be typed as kana, but most people type rōmaji (Latin characters).

I'd dare say Japanese is even worse, so a lot of data is used to infer what the writer means with the phonetic input in kana/kanji conversion.

That's the real reason why kana started to be used for writing Japanese.

Learning Japanese using an antiquated romaji system (si vs shi, etc.) and not learning any kana or kanji won't get you very far.

In Chinese characters the term is "頑張って," and in kana it is "がんばって." Google Translate did the best it could with what you wrote.

I was skeptical when reading "Remebering the Kana", but halfway through it I found that despite the silliness, it worked.

Kana work in Japanese because the only legal syllable structures are CV, V, and N.

This makes a Hangul-like system a stretch, though possible, and a Kana-like system, wherein every possible syllable has its own character, completely impossible.

> It covers Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Kanji and Kana: beyond that, few monospace fonts will do, though you can always fall back to Arial Unicode.