- Translators
- Translation Services
- Testimonials
- FAQ
- Contact Us
Whether you're looking for Japanese to English translation or English to Japanese translation, our certified and professional Japanese translator is ready to help you. Professional Japanese translation services for residents of Hargraves are prepared by full-time translators, experienced in translating for both individuals and businesses. All of our Japanese translators have tertiary qualifications and have more than 10 years of professional translation experience across a wide range of subject-matter.
Get NAATI transation services wherever you're based in Australia. All NAATI translators have up-to-date credentials with NAATI for providing certified document translations in Australia.
If you have a local business you'd like to advertise on this Hargraves page, or specifically would like to translate your product or services information into Japanese, please email us. Our Japanese language services has experience in all types of document translation including technical and medical translation.
Japanese Business Translation EnquiryJapanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, and its relation to other languages, such as Korean, is debated. Japonic languages have been grouped with other language families such as Ainu, Austroasiatic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance.
Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century. During the Heian period (794-1185), Chinese had considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185-1600) included changes in features that brought it closer to the modern language, and the first appearance of European loanwords. The standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo (modern Tokyo) region in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century-mid-19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly. English loanwords, in particular, have become frequent, and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated.
Japanese has no clear genealogical relationship with Chinese, although it makes prevalent use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, hiragana and katakana. Latin script is used in a limited fashion, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals alongside traditional Chinese numerals.