Native Japanese vocabulary, pure Wago/Yamato Kotoba


Can you still speak Japanese while avoiding to use most Chinese loan words?
The native portion of the Japanese language is called Yamato Kotoba or Wago,
but how fluent could you still be without the Chinese-based part of Japanese?  
Would pure Yamato Kotoba be comparable to Anglish for English?




Although Sino-Japanese words (aka kango) are [technically
loanwords](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/68077/5010), they have been an
integral part of the Japanese vocabulary for more than 1000 years. Practically
speaking, it's almost impossible to avoid all of them. Some very common kango
which have no easy wago equivalent include:

  * 百, 千, 万, ... hundred, thousand, ten thousand...
  * 学校 school
  * 日本語 Japanese (language)
  * 月曜日, 火曜日, ... Monday, Tuesday, ...
  * 冷蔵庫 refrigerator
  * 本 book
  * 帽子 hat
  * 鉛筆 pencil
  * 電車 train

Since you mentioned Anglish, yes, I think speaking purely in wago is
conceptually close to speaking without "loanwords" in English like _street_ ,
_school_ , _marriage_ or _cheese_.




Although Sino-Japanese words (aka kango) are [technically
loanwords](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/68077/5010), they have been an
integral part of the Japanese vocabulary for more than 1000 years. Practically
speaking, it's almost impossible to avoid all of them. Some very common kango
which have no easy wago equivalent include:

  * 百, 千, 万, ... hundred, thousand, ten thousand...
  * 学校 school
  * 日本語 Japanese (language)
  * 月曜日, 火曜日, ... Monday, Tuesday, ...
  * 冷蔵庫 refrigerator
  * 本 book
  * 帽子 hat
  * 鉛筆 pencil
  * 電車 train

Since you mentioned Anglish, yes, I think speaking purely in wago is
conceptually close to speaking without "loanwords" in English like _street_ ,
_school_ , _marriage_ or _cheese_.

