PROSES PEMBENTUKAN KOSAKATA BAHASA JEPANG (WAGO)

Lina Rosliana (Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung)

LITE: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya
Vol 5, No 2 (2009): September

Japanese (Nihongo), is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loanwords from other languages. A vast number of words were borrowed from Chinese, or created from Chinese models, over a period of at least 1,500 years. Since the late 19th century, Japanese has borrowed a considerable number of words from Indo-European languages, primarily English.