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One of the world's top 10 most widely spoken languages: Japanese

Spoken worldwide by approximately 127 million people, Japanese ranks as one of the ten most widely spoken languages in the world. Speakers of Japanese, however, are almost all native speakers, and live either in Japan or in minority communities in the USA and South America. One of the great challenges in learning Japanese are its four different systems of writing: Beside a series of Chinese characters, or so-called kanji, there are also the hiragana and katakana scripts that derive from kanji. Besides this, the Latin alphabet (romaji) is also used. The various writing systems are used parallel to each other for different purposes. Foreign words, for example, are usually written in katakana.