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A system of writing Japanese using the letters of the Latin alphabet.

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  • On the other hand nearly all Japanese mobile phones use kana-based input, and indeed a recent phone was advertising as a unique feature the ability to input in romaji...
  • The words had to be vocalized and written out in the Roman alphabet (known as romaji in Japanese).
  • I didn’t know any Japanese when I arrived – I had a phrasebook and a self-introduction written out in romaji, and that was it.
  • In romaji, meaning using the Roman alphabet to spell, one types “toukyou” on a standard QWERTY layout and presses the space bar to convert to kanji.
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