Japanese is perhaps the most widely known example of a language that encodes politeness at its core. Japanese has two main levels of politeness, one for intimate acquaintances, family, and friends, and one for other groups, and verb morphology reflects these levels. Besides that, some verbs have special hyper-polite suppletive forms. This happens also with some nouns and interrogative pronouns. Japanese also employs different personal pronouns for each person according to gender, age, rank, degree of acquaintance, and other cultural factors.
Japanese is perhaps the most widely known example of a language. that encod,es politeness at its core. Japanese has two main levels of politeness, one for intimate acquaintances, family, and friends, and one for other groups and verb morphology reflects these levels. Besides that, some verbs have special hyper-polite suppletive forms This happens also with some nouns and interrogative pronouns. Japanese also employs different personal pronouns for each person according to gender, age, rank, degree of acquaintance, and other cultural factors.