Let’s play a game with English.

Let’s switch up sentences by segmenting them into people/places/things, w-words, and actions at the end.

W-words are words like Who, what, when, where, how.

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Sounds for the W-words

Now, how about instead of "who" who we simply say the sound “ga.”

Instead of "when" and "whereto" we’ll say the sound “ni.”

Rather than say “superset ” everytime, we’ll say “noh”

And instead of “use case ” we’ll say “whoa” or “oh.”

Rather than say “with” we’ll simply say “toe” or “toh” for “with.”

Who Gah

Where(to) Ni

When Ni

With Toh

Use-case Oh

Superset Noh

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Hiragana for Sounds

Now, let's replace our sounds with some glyphs from the Hiragana phonetic syllabary.

Who が [ga]

Where(to) に [ni]

When に [ni]

With と [to]

Use-case を [o]

Superset の [no]

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Congratulations,
this is Japanese grammar.


So far we have identified six languages with this style of arrangement:

• Japanese
• Korean
• Tibetan
• Turkish
• Tamil
• Hindthi
• Basque (Region of Spain)

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