Unlike the older iroha ordering, the modern "fifty sounds" ordering of this language's syllabary is based on Sanskrit, to which it is unrelated.
Unlike the older iroha ordering, the modern "fifty sounds" ordering of this language's syllabary is based on Sanskrit, to which it is unrelated. All nouns in this language have neither gender nor true grammatical number. It uses three classes of relative honorifics, including kenjogo. Together with languages such as Amami, this language is considered to be an isolate. It uses two manyogana-derived syllabaries and a logography; they are katakana and hiragana, and kanji, respectively. For 10 points, identify this language mostly spoken on an archipelago that includes Hokkaido and Honshu, from which English has borrowed "tycoon" and "sushi."
Unlike the older iroha ordering, the modern "fifty sounds" ordering of this language's syllabary is based on Sanskrit, to which it is unrelated.
Japanese language [or Nihongo; or Nippongo]