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Japan
Written in the kana script. Uses SOV word order with agglutinative morphology. Notable features include tonal distinctions, a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.
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Japan
366,911 km²
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Word order SOV
Adjective before noun
Numeral before noun
Adposition postposition
Def. article no
Indef. article yes
Pro-drop no
Tonal yes
Gender no
Noun cases yes