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JAPANESE GRAMMAR.
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I. THE ALPHABET,
OR
The Iroha.
The letters used in Japanese are forty-seven. They have two different forms, one of which is called Katakana, and the other Hiragana. We give the Katakana, as under:—
These letters are called in Japanese:—
i ro ha ni ho he to ti ri nu ru o wa ka yo ta re so tu ne na ra mu u i no o ku ya ma ya fu ko ye te a sa ki yu me mi si ye hi mo se zu.
The whole system of the letters is called Iroha, from イロハ, the names of these first three letters.