Show r r 1 talo take mil MI word 11 i I 1 I 1 1 F or 11 dy by FRANK COLBY 11 1 ja L WHY IS JAPAN CALLED NIPPON 0 beverly hills we have been told often that japanese words never end in a consonant then what about nippon and whence come the names nippon and japan LC answer thousands of japanese words end with the consonant n otherwise all native words end with a vowel it must be noted however that the japanese with their natural aca acq acquisitiveness have added large numbers of english words to their language especially occidental terms for which no 0 words exist A few such words have been borrowed without change in spelling and may end in consonants other than N but tor for the most part english words word are so as to conform to the end with a vowel pattern thus cream pilot Pal rotto match hatchl roast beef bliff the name japan evolved from marco account of visiting a group of marvelous islands off the east coast of asia ile he gave the islands the name of Zi u a cor of a word meaning sun origin the english changed zi bangui pangu to and this in turn finally became japan the original japanese name for the islands was nihon mci meaning aning origin of light hence the familiar translation the land of the rising sun later nihon was changed to nippon english pronunciation cia tion nippon nip pon japanese pone and val dal nippon great japan became the official name deli bell syndicate features feature |