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Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 pangram

Pangram

A pangram , or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding...

, authored in the 9th century AD, which is credited as being the oldest perfect pangram in the Japanese language. Its name roughly translates to "Song (or Words) of the Universe".

The text

The text of the pangram written in hiragana

Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...

 (including the now archaic ゐ i and ゑ e as well as the, also archaic, phonetic kanji

Kanji

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...

 枝 (ye)):

あめ つち ほし そら

やま かは みね たに

くも きり むろ こけ

ひと いぬ うへ すゑ

ゆわ さる おふせよ

えの枝を なれゐて

The text of the pangram written in kanji

Kanji

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...

:

天 地 星 空

山 川 峰 谷

雲 霧 室 苔

人 犬 上 末

硫黄 猿 生ふせよ

榎の枝を 慣れ居て

The text of the pangram written in Hepburn

Hepburn romanization

The is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese–English dictionary, published in 1887. The system was originally proposed by the in 1885...

 romaji:

Ame tsuchi hoshi sora

Yama kaha mine tani

Kumo kiri muro koke

Hito inu uhe suwe

Yuwa saru ofuseyo

Eno yewo narewite

A rough and necessarily nonsensical English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

translation:

Heaven, earth, star, sky,

Mountain, river, ridge, valley,

Cloud, fog, mudhouse, moss,

Person, dog, top, end,

Sulfur, monkey, grow!

Hackberry branch! Keep getting more familiar!