Colloquial style - Kougoutai

Japanese: 口語体 - こうごたい

A style of writing based on modern spoken language, especially standard Japanese. Since the Meiji period, the movement to unify spoken language has led to the development of colloquial Japanese as an alternative to literary Japanese, which was far removed from colloquial Japanese. It has been popularized and refined by novelists in particular, and in 1904 the majority of texts in national textbooks were written in colloquial Japanese. Around 1921, newspapers adopted colloquial Japanese, and in 1946 all official documents adopted colloquial Japanese. Depending on the ending of the sentence, it can be classified into the "da" style, the "dearu" style, the "desu/masu" style, and so on.
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Japanese:

現代の話し言葉，特に共通語に基づく文章の様式。明治以来言文一致運動により，口語との懸隔の大きい文語体に代わるものとして，口語体が発達した。とくに小説家によって普及，洗練されたが，1904年国定教科書では過半の文章が口語体となり，新聞は1921年ごろ，公用文は1946年にすべて口語体を採用することになった。文尾の表現によって，〈だ調〉〈である調〉〈です・ます調〉などに類別される。
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