Alphabets

The Japanese writing system is very complicated, it has three alphabets with more than two thousand characters.

The Japanese language has three different alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji.

Why do so many people study Japanese? The kanjis aren't logical, there are two alphabets, there aren't spaces between words, the adjectives change with the tense of the sentence, there are various grammatical constructions for the different levels of formality.

How many alphabets exist?

In Elefen two alphabets can be used: Latin and Cyrillic.

The Cherokee syllabary, just like the Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin alphabets, has a distinction between lowercase and uppercase letters.