Aside from kanji, Japanese has two phonetic alphabets. Their language is complex, but it also seems to have a lot of redundancy built in, even if romaji doesn&#x27;t count as an unofficial extra Japanese alphabet by now.<p>Quora has an illustration[0] of a keyboard with english and hiragana characters mapped, and conversion to kanji by software. It seems awkward, but not to the degree that it would stifle adoption considerably. Admittedly, this is a naive view on my part.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-do-computer-users-type-in-Japanese" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-do-computer-users-type-in-Japanese</a>