<prompt> Translate the following text to SwahiliIn the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.  <response>: Kwa kuwa hakukuwa na alfabeti ya kienyeji, wasomi Wajapani walijaribu kwa ugumu mkubwa sana kurekebisha maandishi magumu ya Kichina yenye herufi moja na ya Kijapani yenye herufi nyingi. 