Result: 1 | MYSTERIUM | 2016 | Round: 9 | Question: 2 | Social Science | NoneID: 71464

Question: Voiced obstruents and /p/ trigger geminate devoicing in this language's loanwords.
Early loanwords in this language allow sequential voicing in compounds, but new ones are
immune, despite Lyman's law. Since this language bans nonnasal codas, its loanwords
epenthesize /u/, except after /h/, /t/, and /d/, which its speakers perceived in a Dupoux et al.
study. Taiwan uses a spiral letter of this language as a playful possessive marker. This language
did not borrow "thank you" from Portuguese. It coins pseudoEnglish (*) wasei portmanteaus like
pasokon via backclipping. It verbs loanwords with the suffix suru. English borrowed skosh,
bokeh, rickshaw, and tycoon from this language. It writes loanwords in one of its three scripts,
conflating the sounds /r/ and /l/. Over half its lexicon is from Chinese. For 10 points, name this
East Asian language that uses three scripts: hiragana, katakana, and kanji.

ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo]

Result: 2 | ICCS | 2014 | Round: 6 | Question: 1 | Literature | WorldID: 38804

Question: One novel written in this language concerns a professor who discovers that aquans
will survive a flood that covers the Earth. Another work written in this language features an
attempt by Johnnie Walker to make a flute out of the souls of cats that he has killed. Those
novels written in this language are Inter Ice Age 4 and Kafka on the Shore. Confessions of a
Mask was written in this language by an author who attempted a failed coup d'tat and then
killed himself. For 10 points, name this native language of Kobo Abe, Yukio Mishima, and
Haruki Murakami.

ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo]

Result: 3 | Illinois Fall Tournament | 2012 | Round: 8 | Question: 11 | Social Science |

NoneID: 41939

Question: Joseph Greenburg first cited this language as evidence of his thesis that all subject-
object-verb languages are postpositional. In the 20th century, a certain country's government
mandated that any newspaper that used words that were not part of the 1,945 most common
words in this language had to print them with a special reading aid that facilitated their
pronunciation. In medieval times, the country using this langauge adopted the script of kanbun to
translate texts into it. In this language, it is customary to insert particles, such as "ga," when
answering a question. Words that are brought into this language may be written in Romaji. For
10 points, identify this language which employs the hiragana and katakana writing scripts.

ANSWER: Japanese or Nihongo

Result: 4 | BHSAT | 2011 | Round: 10 | Question: 5 | Social Science | NoneID: 50305

Question: 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."

ANSWER: Japanese language [or Nihongo; or Nippongo]

Result: 5 | HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season | 2011 | Round: 08.pdf | Question: 26 | Social
Science | ID: 3480

Question: One way to write this language was invented by women, who were not permitted to
use the existing syllabary. Another form of writing for this language is used chiefly for proper
names and foreign words. The last of its three major writing systems uses characters borrowed
from Confucian classics. For 10 points, hiragana (HEAR-ah-GAH-nah), katakana (KAH-tah-
KA-nah), and kanji (KAHN-jee) are the chief writing systems of what language, which is spoken
in Osaka and Tokyo?

ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo]

Result: 6 | HSAPQ Tournament 11 | 2009 | Round: tourn11-15.pdf | Question: 6 |

Geography | ID: 21101

Question: This language does not use syllables, but moras. An n at the end of a syllable in this
language counts as a separate mora. Generally speaking, it uses the particle ga to indicate a
subject and wa to indicate a topic. This language uses various scripts, including one based on (*)
Chinese characters, kanji, and two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana. For 10 points, name
this language spoken in Tokyo.

ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo]

Result: 7 | HSAPQ Tournament 9 | 2009 | Round: tourn9-15.pdf | Question: 17 | Literature |

ID: 21749

Question: The iroha (ear-oh-ha) poem uses every character in this language exactly once. A
thirty-six-line poetic form that developed in this language requires two verses about blossoms
and three verses about the moon. That form, (*) kasen (kah-sen), is one type of this language's
"linked poems," which evolved from this language's aristocratic renga (renn-guh) poetry.
Another of this language's literary forms, the zuihitsu, (zwee-heet-sue) was used to write The
Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon (sai show-nuh-gawn). For 10 points, name this language, which
was also used in the medieval novel The Tale of Genji.

ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo]

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Result: 1 | ACF Nationals |2009 | 2 | 12 | Social Science | None | OpenID: 11154

Question: Many analyses of this language's phonology include the nonspecific pseudo-phonemes
/Q/ ["capital q"], marking the first half of a geminated consonant, and /N/, representing a
syllable-final nasal. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this language which also includes a system of downstep.

ANSWER: Japanese language or Nihongo

[10] Mushamusha, meaning "frustrated" or "irritated", belongs to this class of sound-symbolic

Japanese words that describe mental states.

ANSWER: psychomimes or gijoogo or gitaigo [do not accept "onomatopoeia"]

[10] This syllabary is used in Japanese to write words of foreign origin, while native words use
hiragana.

ANSWER: katakana