KATAKANA
Katakana is one of the two syllabaries of the Japanese writing system.
A character is used to represent each syllable in the Japanese language. Katakana is used to transcribe foreign and loan words into Japanese, writing onomatopoeia, technical terminology and company names. This syllabary uses a very simple script, as can be seen below. [image credit: kagayakuboshi.deviantart.com] |