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	Japanese language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Japanese is a relative of the Altaic language family.
		Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic grammatical substructure, and core Austronesian vocabulary.
		Japanese also coined many neologisms (in kanji) to carry Western concepts; many of these were exported to Chinese and Korean via characters, in late 19th and early 20th century.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Japanese_language (3083 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dialects of Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thus there are specific dialects such as Kyōto-ben, Kobe-ben, Nara-ben, Wakayama-ben, etc. However, since Osaka is the largest city of the region, and since its speakers have gained the most media exposure in the last century, the typical Japanese person tends to equate the dialect of Osaka with the entire Kansai region.
		Since Kansai-ben is the most common atypical dialect of Japanese, it has become a favorite with Japanese authors, manga and anime artists, and the like as the choice for representing a somewhat "different" character from the norm.
		It is Kanto in accent, Kansai in intonation, archaic in vocabulary and Nagoya in grammar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dialects-of-Japanese-language (1081 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Japanese Language
		Because the Japanese language seems to have developed in virtual isolation from other languages, there is no conclusive evidence relating Japanese to a single family of languages and to that family's common ancestor language.
		Japanese has also developed separate varieties of the language for use in different social contexts; such varieties are called social styles of speech.
		The two dialect families with the largest number of speakers are those spoken in and around Tokyo, which is regarded as common Japanese, and the dialects of the Kansai region in western Japan, spoken in cities such as Kyōto, Ōsaka, and Kōbe.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761568918__1/Japanese_Language.html (2437 words)

	Dialect LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Varieties of language such as dialects, idiolects and sociolects can be distinguished not only by their vocabulary and grammar, but also by differences in phonology (including prosody).
		An opposite example is the case of the Chinese language whose variations are often considered dialects and not languages despite their mutual unintelligibility because they share a common literary standard and common body of literature.
		A dialect continuum is a network of dialects in which geographically adjacent dialects are mutually comprehensible, but with comprehensibility steadily decreasing as distance between the dialects increases.
	language.school-explorer.com /info/Dialect (1663 words)

	Japanese language and history by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Among these languages, Korean is most frequently compared to Japanese, as both languages share significant key features such as general structure, vowel harmony, lack of conjunctions, and the extensive use of honorific speech, in which the hierarchical rank of the listener heavily affects the discourse.
		Japanese also shares considerable similarities with the languages of the Ryukyu Islands, within which Okinawa is located, although the Ryukyu languages and Japanese are also mutually unintelligible.
		Another influence of current note is the generation gap that exists relative to Japanese language use-today's younger generation is tending to favor the utilization of more neutral and informal speech, ignoring the importance of the role of honorific and gender-specific speech regarded important in traditional Japanese.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/japanese.htm (1590 words)

	Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Japanese is a relative of extinct languages spoken by historic cultures in what are now the Korean peninsula and Manchuria.
		Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic substratum and an Austronesian superstratum, or vice versa.
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the islands of Okinawa (沖縄) Prefecture.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Japanese-language.htm (3535 words)

	Articles - Dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Often, the standard language is close to the sociolect of the elite class.
		The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich published the expression, "A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un a flot" ("A language is a dialect with an army and a navy"), illustrating the fact that languages are created by assimilation.
		A network of dialects similarly exists among the Eastern Slavic languages, among which Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian are recognized as three literary standards.
	www.cat-center.com /articles/Dialects (1679 words)

	Japanese language
		Japanese is the language of a millenary culture rich in traditions, history and all kind of artistic expressions.
		Japanese is a nicely flexible language, attentive to new influences and attached to its traditions at the same time.
		Japanese is so important because it is the language of one of the richest nations in the world, key in a business world.
	www.orbislingua.com /eaf.htm (490 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Ryukyuan languages used in and around Okinawa bilingually mostly by the elderly are related to Japanese, but the two are mutually unintelligible.
		Japanese "r" is somewhat close to the Spanish "r" or the flap in American English, i.e.
		Unlike languages like Italian in which knowledge of the standard language is sufficient for communication in almost any circumstance, it may be necessary to be familiar with local dialects of Japanese on some occasions.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Japanese_language (4368 words)

	Articles - Dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		(Weinreich explicitly states that he did not coin it.) It has been suggested that the initial wording was provided by, Hubert Lyautey as, "Une langue, c'est un dialecte qui possÃ¨de une armÃ©e, une marine et une aviation." ("A language is a dialect with an army, a navy and an air force.").
		It sees genetic relationships as paramount; the "dialects" of a "language" (which itself may be a "dialect" of a yet older tongue) may or may not be mutually intelligible.
		Italian speakers and Spanish speakers, for example, may be able to understand a considerable proportion of each other's closely-related Romance languages, whereas Lombards and Sicilians, speaking what are described as dialects of the same language, may encounter considerable barriers to mutual comprehension.
	www.wathcesa.com /articles/Dialect (1669 words)

	Learn Kendo Discussion :: View topic - the Japanese (including Okinawan) Language... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The two Dialect Families with the largest number of speakers are the Japanese Dialect spoken in and around Tokyo, which is equivalent to the "Common" Dialect, and the Dialects of the Kansai Region spoken in western Japan in cities such as Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe.
		The Japanese common language used to be based on the dialects 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 Tokyo.
		Izumo Ben (Izumo Dialect) in Japanese sushi, susu (soot) and shishi (lion) are all pronounced the same as "susu," as in the Southern Tohoku Dialect.
	learnkendo.cheness.com /viewtopic.php?t=278 (2244 words)

	Japanese (The Languages of the World by Computers and the Internet)
		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.osk.3web.ne.jp /logos/japanese.html (2746 words)

	Job vacancies, resume writing instructions, immigration and work permit visa, translation, curriculum vitae examples, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Students majoring in Japanese Language are required to include Introduction to The Study of Japanese Language among their Foundation courses.
		The language in Dewa is one of Shonai regional dialects.
		While Japanese might look similar to Chinese at first glance because of the use of similar characters, the two languages are not related.
	www.legionworks.com /english/link/17021 (448 words)

	Directory - Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: Language: Japanese Dialects
		Dialect in Yamagata · Short explanations on dialects in Yamagata.
		Japanese Gems - Itoshima-ben · Shows examples of local dialect in Fukuoka, along with their standard equivalents.
		Dialects, History · iweb · Gives brief history and development of the Japanese language and various dialects.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=218150 (231 words)

	Dialects of Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Japanese language has dozens of geographic dialects in addition to standard Japanese, which grew out of Kanto's dialect.
		The most well-known, Kansai-ben (関西弁;, ben dialect), also known as Osaka-ben, is a dialect spoken in the Kansai region of Japan, and most notably in the city of Osaka.
		Hakata-ben is the dialect of Fukuoka and is notable, amongst many other idiosyncrasies, for its use of -to?
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/dialects_of_japanese_language (497 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gender Disctinction in Japanese - Essay on "Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language"
		Japanese: The Spoken Language - This three-volume textbook series and accompanying interactive CD-ROM program stresses Japanese as it is spoken today in Japan.
		Japanese wa, mo, ga, wo, na, no - Scholarly study of the syntax of the six most common post-nominal particles in Japanese, by Frederik Kortlandt.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Japanese (394 words)

	Jim Breen's Japanese Page
		Japanese educational resources is the one built and maintained by Charles Kelly.
		CONJUGATE (CONsortium for Japanese Language Materials Using GlobAl TEchnologies) project, hosted at the University of Tsukuba International Student Center, is a starting point to a mass of useful material.
		A new service from Kokken (the National Institute for Japanese Language) is their JiBOOKS which allows searches for Japanese books in print, either in the Waseda library, or in the database of the Japan Book Publishers Association (Books.or.jp).
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/japanese.html (10381 words)

	Fujiwara (1973) The sentence structure of Japanese: Viewed in the light of dialectology
		Fujiwara (1973) The sentence structure of Japanese: Viewed in the light of dialectology
		The sentence structure of Japanese: Viewed in the light of dialectology
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	TheJapanesePage.com - Learn Japanese for FREE -- How to Wow! with language, culture, kanji, and grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For a very long time, people in Japan were very limited in movement.
		(Tokyo's dialect is considered standard Japanese) Today's focus is on the dialect of Osaka, Kyoto and the surrounding area.
		So the dialect of the Kansai area (Osaka, Kyoto...) is 'KANSAI BEN.' Likewise the dialect of Fukui prefecture (my prefecture) is 'FUKUI BEN,' etc...
	www.thejapanesepage.com /print.php?type=A&item_id=107 (247 words)

	Masuda (1999) The genesis of discourse grammar: Universals and substrata in Guyanese, Hawaii Creole, and Japanese
		Masuda (1999) The genesis of discourse grammar: Universals and substrata in Guyanese, Hawaii Creole, and Japanese
		The genesis of discourse grammar: Universals and substrata in Guyanese, Hawaii Creole, and Japanese
		Creole dialects; Universals (Linguistics); Substratum (Linguistics); Creole dialects, English; Japanese language; Discourse analysis; History; Guyana; Hawaii
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=100419342&showStat=Ratings (111 words)

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