Consonants in this language are referred to using a word meaning "child sounds, " and most of its fo
Consonants in this language are referred to using a word meaning "child sounds, " and most of its formal speech includes use of the copula verb. Noted for an extensive use of frozen registers, honorifics such as "o" are often added to nouns in this language, which feature no difference between singular and plural. It is written using a pair of syllabaries known as "kana;" the "kata" syllabary is mostly used to write borrowed foreign words. For 10 points, what is this probably Altaic language, written in hiragana and katakana scripts and widely spoken on Shikoku and Honshu?
Consonants in this language are referred to using a word meaning "child sounds, " and most of its formal speech includes use of the copula verb.
Japanese