The Language of Mysterious Origins- Japanese
Japanese turns out to be the world’s most challenging language and rightfully so. Even though over 125 million in the world speaks the language, its roots are uncertain. In all probability, the language was introduced by Chinese in Japan.
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In fact, the Japanese language also gave us the world’s first ever novel in the form of The Tale of Genji (源氏物語). However, it has significant influence over other languages like English. This is evident from the fact that Japanese terms like karaoke, tsunami, Sudoku are commonly used words in the English language.