Katakana

syllabary, natural writing system, unicase alphabet
Subclass of	kana
Part of	kana
Inception	800
Name	Katakana, katakana
Native label	片仮名
Based on	man'yōgana
Derivative work	Taiwanese kana, Ainu orthography
Creator	Kūkai
Country of origin	Japan
Language of work or name	Japanese, Ryukyuan, Ainu
Script directionality	vertical right-to-left, left-to-right
Unicode range	U+30A1-30FA,U+30FD-30FF,U+31F0-31FF,U+32D0-32FE,U+3300-3357,U+FF66-FF6F,U+FF71-FF9D,U+1AFF0-1AFF3,U+1AFF5-1AFFB,U+1AFFD-1AFFE,U+1B000,U+1B120-1B122,U+1B155,U+1B164-1B167
Stack Exchange tag	https://japanese.stackexchange.com/tags/katakana

Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ) shima silabari təlam Japanbewo, nasha fal nizam ruwobe təlam Japanbe rokko hiraganaben,^[1] kanjiben kuru loktuwalaan ruwo Latinbe (rōmaji lan nowotə).

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↑ Roy Andrew Miller (1966) A Japanese Reader: Graded Lessons in the Modern Language, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo, Japan, p. 28, Lesson 7: Katakana: a—no. "Side by side with hiragana, modern Japanese writing makes use of another complete set of similar symbols called the katakana."

[1] Roy Andrew Miller (1966) A Japanese Reader: Graded Lessons in the Modern Language, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo, Japan, p. 28, Lesson 7: Katakana: a—no. "Side by side with hiragana, modern Japanese writing makes use of another complete set of similar symbols called the katakana."

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