Note 88 — Chapter III · THE THREE CAUSES OF CHANGE IN LANGUAGE.

So in Japan the learned class has introduced the Chinese characters under the name of Koyé or Won, and with them the Chinese pronunciation and order of words. In Koyé (that is to say in Chinese) the particles come first, then the verb, and, lastly, the case. The reverse is the case in Japanese, or when the characters are read as Yomi, that is, as ideographs standing for Japanese words. Thus, the Koyé “sed non videbo hodie illum” would have to be read in Yomi, “illum videbo hodie non sed.”