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書かき言葉ことば (kakikotoba)

written language

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Meaning

書き言葉 (かきことば, kakikotoba) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “written language”.

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Example sentences 8

書かき言葉ことばと話はなし言葉ことばはだいぶ違ちがうことがあります。

Written language and spoken language are quite different sometimes.

書き言葉の規則を話し言葉に押しつけてはいけない.

The rules of the written language must not be forced onto speech.

スペイン語ごの書き言葉かきことばは、ほんのいくらかわかるが、スペイン語ごの話し言葉はなしことばときたら、ちんぷんかんぷんだ。

I can understand written Spanish just a little but spoken Spanish is Greek to me.

その結果、明治末になるとそれらは書き言葉として次第に確立し、一般の文章にも大きな影響を与えるようになった。

As a result, in the late Meiji period they gradually became established as the written language, and came to greatly influence Japanese general writing.

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