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	Japanese language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic substratum and an Austronesian superstratum, or vice versa.
		Dialects from less central regions, such as the Tōhoku or Tsushima dialect may be unintelligible to speakers from other parts of the country.
		Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three main scripts: kanji, characters of Chinese origin used to represent both Chinese loanwords into Japanese and a number of native Japanese morphemes; and two syllabaries: hiragana and katakana.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/j/a/p/Japanese_language.html (3271 words)

	International JFL Cafe. Japanese language information.
		Japanese dialects are mutually intelligible, although extremely geographically separated dialects such as the Tōhoku-ben and Kyūshū-ben may not be; in such cases speakers switch to the standard language with which all Japanese are familiar from school and from the media.
		Japanese has a lot of pronouns for use in different occasions, and different pronouns for men and women, younger or older, etc. These pronouns are not used all the time, but often elided when the reference has been established and is obvious from context.
		Japanese children rarely use polite speech until their teens, at which point they are expected to begin speaking in a more adult manner.
	internationaleflcafe.com /japanese-language-information.htm (3125 words)

	Japanese Language - MSN Encarta
		Japanese Language, official language of Japan, spoken by virtually all of the nation's approximately 130 million inhabitants, and by people of Japanese heritage living in Hawaii, the Americas, and elsewhere.
		The basic Japanese consonants are p, b, t, d, k, g, s, z, h, m, n, r, y, w, plus the nasal consonant that appears at the end of a syllable, as in hon (book).
		While the English language has stress accent (in which the prominence of a syllable is expressed by articulating it louder or with greater force), Japanese has pitch accent, meaning that pitch is the sole method of emphasizing a syllable.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568918/Japanese_Language.html (457 words)

	Japanese dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kansai-ben (関西弁) is a dialect spoken in the Kansai region of Japan.
		Hakata-ben is the dialect of the Hakata ward of Fukuoka City.
		Specialists agree that Ryūkyū Islands (the islands of Okinawa Prefecture and some of the islands of Kagoshima Prefecture) is not a dialect of the Japanese language; rather, it comprises a separate branch of the Japonic family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_dialects (2112 words)

	Japanese language - Gurupedia
		Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic grammatical substructure, and core Austronesian vocabulary.
		Dialects are generally mutually intelligible, although extremely geographically separated dialects such as the Tōhoku and Kyūshū; variants are not.
		The present tense (or imperfect tense) in Japanese serves the function of the simple present and the future tense, while the past tense (or perfect tense) in Japanese serves the function of the simple past tense.
	www.gurupedia.com /j/ja/japanese_language.htm (3446 words)

	Japanese
		The Japanese writing system can be traced back to the 4th century AD, when Chinese writing was introduced to Japan through the medium of Buddhism, as Japan adopted Chinese cultural practices and reorganized its government in accordance with the Chinese administrative structure.
		Because the Chinese characters (called kanji in Japanese) could not represent all the elements of the Japanese language, two syllabaries of approximately 50 syllables each, called hiragana and katakana, were created in the 12th century.
		Japanese is considered to be a Category III language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/Japanese.html (1917 words)

	LEARN JAPANESE
		Japanese (日本語 nihongo) is spoken in Japan, and essentially nowhere else.
		Japanese generally employs a subject-object-verb order, using particles to mark the grammatical functions of the words: 私がハンバーガーを食べる watashi-ga hamburger-o taberu, "I-subject hamburger-object eat".
		Japanese themselves use three different writing systems of various complexity, two of which (hiragana' and katakana) are syllabic and relatively easy to learn with 50 characters each, but the clincher is the set of over 2000 Chinese characters known as kanji.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /japanese_language/learn_japanese.htm (320 words)

	HLW: Introduction: Dialects and Languages
		The standard dialect is often the only dialect that is written, and it is the one that is taught in schools and (with some exceptions) used in the media.
		The non-standard dialects have less prestige, and their use may be discouraged in formal situations, not just situations in which writing is called for.
		At this point the words dialect and language become politically charged terms because the supporters of official status for the non-standard dialect may feel the need to argue that it is not "just" a dialect of the larger language but rather a language in its own right.
	www.indiana.edu /~hlw/Introduction/dialects.html (3345 words)

	Japanese Dialects. - Outpost Nine Forums
		Dialects are something you have to pick up, I think; it's like having an accent here, only the structure is tweaked quite a bit more.
		And by japanese, I would be talking about a dialect that would be used in tokyo and very standard across all places.
		The locals would tone down their dialect for me, but there was one aspect of the dialect they'd always used that really threw me off at first: They'd replace the -nai ending of verb negatives with -n.
	www.outpostnine.com /forum/showthread.php?t=425 (2113 words)

	E-Budo.com - Dialects
		Japanese dialects are far and away from the English version.
		The way the US sees a lot of the dialect spoken in The Queens English abroad is similar, although they are using a different speech pattern and they are voicing their vowels and constanants differently, one came generally make out what is being said (sometimes).
		I found more that Japanese people like to think they are all unique, despite the fact that they all tend to sdiffer from standard japanese in the same ways.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/printthread.php?t=21844 (1313 words)

	p i x e l s c r i b b l e s :: journal: Japanese dialects
		By that, he meant that every Japanese was fluent both in hyojungo, the standard language used for television, radio, books, and magazines, and in the local dialect that people use to varying degrees to conduct the business of everyday life in their communities.
		While Japanese know and understand the most common traits of the many dialects in the country, they can get sucked into the verbal quicksand just as quickly when people get down and dirty with the hardcore version of their local language.
		I guess my Japanese really wasn't all that great at the time (2001), because I couldn't tell the difference between how she spoke and how people spoke on TV, where the Tokyo dialect is overwhelmingly used.
	pixelscribbles.com /journal/2005/06/japanese-dialects.html (335 words)

	Japanese (The Languages of the World by Computers and the Internet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Japanese "wi" and "wo" are pronounced the same as "i" and "e," respectively; so are "di" and "du" as "ji" and "zu," respectively.
		The Japanese common language used to be based on the diaclects of the Kansai region, but since the 17th century is based on the dialect of Tokyo in the Kanto region, as Japan's political and economic center moved from Kyoto and Osaka to Edo, present-day Tokyo.
		The northern Tohoku dialects are dear to all Japanese, having appeared in Kenji Miyazawa's poetry and children's stories (born in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture), and in Kunio Yanagida's "The Stories of Tono" (Tono City, Iwate Prefecture).
	www.threeweb.ad.jp /logos/japanese.html#dialect (2746 words)

	Dialects of Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Japanese language has dozens of geographic dialects in to standard Japanese which grew out of Kanto 's dialect.
		The most well-known Kansai-ben (関西弁; (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/and#38306;and#35199;and#24321;) ben dialect) also known as Osaka-ben is a dialect spoken in the Kansai region of Japan and most notably in the city Osaka.
		Satsuma-ben the dialect of Kagoshima prefecture is often called "unintelligible" because of conjugations of words and significantly different vocabulary.
	www.freeglossary.com /Dialects_of_Japanese_language (740 words)

	Japanese Dialects in Anime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Keep in mind, however, that not all the characters who speak with an accent in Japanese get dubbed that way in English; only a select few do, and usually it's because cultural differences are present as a part of the story or as a comedic element.
		Keep in mind that sometimes the voice actors are not from the region and do only an adequate job imitating the dialect, or that the script is made to enhance only certain aspects of the dialect to make a character behave in a certain way.
		Obviously, Japan has several other dialects, one of which is debatable that it can be considered Japanese at all (Okinawa-ben), but these four are the most likely candidates to be represented in your anime of choice.
	www.animeacademy.com /dialects.php (917 words)

	J-List side blog: Back in Japan with culture shock, all about Japanese dialects, perceptions between countries and ...
		I've heard that, since Japanese are more likely to stay in the same place all their lives, or move to Tokyo for work or education then do a "U-turn" back to their home prefecture soon after, Japan's dialects have a lot more variation to them than North American English.
		Often dialects are used to add a new dimension to a character in anime, and if you have a group of females in a given show, you can bet there'll be one whose "charm point" is speaking some cute but odd-sounding flavor of Japanese.
		Usually the subject of dialects is discarded when an anime series is dubbed into English, but not always: in Magic Knight Rayearth, a favorite of mine, there's a country called Chizeta where all the people speak Osaka-ben, which was (of course) brought over as Deep Southern ("y'all") in English.
	www.peterpayne.net /2006/06/back-in-japan-with-culture-shock-all.html (1809 words)

	Ethnologue report for Japan
		The Kagoshima dialect is 84% cognate with Tokyo dialect.
		Ryukyu languages are 62% to 70% cognate with Tokyo dialect of Japanese.
		Dialects: Inherent intelligibility is generally impossible, or very difficult, with other Ryukyuan languages and Japanese.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Japan (445 words)

	Japanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, the other member being Ryūkyūan.
		The Ryūkyūan languages, while closely related to Japanese, are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family, and are not dialects of Japanese.
		Broadly speaking, there are three main politeness levels in spoken Japanese: the plain form (futsūgo 普通語), the simple polite form (teineigo 丁寧語) and the advanced polite form (keigo 敬語).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_language (5224 words)

	Top 20 Japanese
		Scholarly study of the syntax of the six most common post-nominal particles in Japanese, by Frederik Kortlandt.
		Long linguistic paper by John C. Maher concerning the derivation of Japanese from a creolized koinÃ©, with its major sources from the Altaic and Austronesian language families.
		The history of kanji and how it came to be used in Japanese writing.
	top20japanese.com (3626 words)

	Japanese Language
		From the History to useful phrases, we're trying to offer a general overview about the language in order to give you a start point to learn Japanese.
		The Japanese literature is another interesting source of information, as well as Japanese slang, to know a little about how people speak in the streets.
		And if you're a teacher, please visit our Japanese Teaching resources page, to get in touch with associations and other sites built specially for you.
	www.japanese-language.org (218 words)

	MavicaNET - Japanese Dialects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Kyoto dialect, Kyo Kotoba, which has a long history and developed in Kyoto's own refined culture, has a unique sound apart from standard Japanese.
		Moreover, the implication of a word changes according to place, time, relationship between people and subtle pronunciation.
		A lesson in the Nagoya Dialect of Japanese.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/isl/9093.html (108 words)

	Structure of Japanese \| Dialects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Pitch accent in Japanese dialects (Shibatani 1990, ch 9)
		From Hoogen bunpoo zenkoku tizu ("Grammar atlas of Japanese dialects")
		Shows a "bundle" of morphosyntactic isoglosses at the boundary between Western and Eastern dialect areas
	www.unc.edu /~jlsmith/strc-jpn/dialects.html (179 words)

	Japanese Travel Phrases
		Hiroshima-ben is used mainly in Hiroshima Prefecture and is similar to its sister dialects in the Chugoku region.
		Kansai-ben is used in the Kansai region of Japan around Osaka, Kyoto, Okayama, Maizuru and Tottori.
		Japanese fonts in the Gallery of Unicode Fonts
	www.travelphrases.info /languages/Japanese.htm (68 words)

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