じょせいご
女性語
1. female language; feminine expression
2. Gender differences in spoken JapaneseThe Japanese language is unusual among major languages in the high degree to which the speech of women collectively differs from that of men. Differences in the ways that girls and boys use language have been detected in children as young as three years old. Such differences are sometimes called "gendered language. " In Japanese, speech patterns peculiar to women are sometimes referred to as onna kotoba (女言葉, "women's words") or joseigo (女性語, "women's language").
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Read “女性語” on Japanese Wikipedia
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