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	Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese society is ethnically and linguistically homogeneous, with small populations of primarily Ryukyuans (1.5 million), North and South Koreans (0.6 million), Chinese and Taiwanese (0.5 million), Filipinos (0.5 million) and Brazilians (250,000).
		However, the Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a postwar baby boom followed by a decrease in births in the latter part of the 20th century.
		The Japanese language is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan (4985 words)

	Japanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese emigrant communities (the largest of which are to be found in Brazil) frequently employ Japanese as their primary language.
		Japanese is a pro-drop language, meaning that the subject or object of a sentence need not be stated if it is obvious from context.
		Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three main systems: 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_language (5034 words)

	Japanese language and history by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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 - hiragana, katakana, kanji, romaji
		Chinese characters were also used for their phonetic values to write grammatical elements and these characters were simplified and eventually became two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana.
		Japanese literature reached a high point during the 11th century with the Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji) by Lady Murasaki Shikibu.
		Modern Japanese texts may also include rōmaji, (Roman letters), the standard way of writing Japanese with the Latin alphabet, eimoji (English script), non-Japanese words written in their own script and various symbols known as kigō.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/japanese.htm (335 words)

	Japanese - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		If symbols there appear as blank boxes, garbage, or question marks (?), your web browser needs to be configured for computing in Japanese.
		Japanese lessons from introductory level, assuming no prior experience, through expert, for the fluent student who wants to learn more.
		Japanese lessons that are similarly structured, but more intensive and include more details for the motivated learner.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Japanese (286 words)

	Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Japanese is one of the world's major languages, ranking ninth in terms of the number of speakers with 125 million.
		It is primarily spoken throughout the Japanese archipelago; there are also some 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad, mainly in North and South America, who have varying degrees of proficiency in Japanese.
		Since the mid-20th century, no nation other than Japan has used Japanese as a first or a second language.
	www.flw.com /languages/japanese.htm (74 words)

	Japanese-Online.com ::: Online Japanese Language & Culture Resource Community :::
		This content teaches Japanese language and culture through the experiences of an expatriate family newly transferred to Tokyo.
		His one year of Japanese language studies is paying off big time since he knows just enough to get around the city on his own and meet new friends.
		He is a member of several professional organizations and has dedicated his life to the advancement of foreign language studies, striving to improve education in the international field.
	www.japanese-online.com /NonMem_JLL.htm (477 words)

	Eri Takase - Names in Japanese
		While we offer other translations options, please keep in mind that the standard way to translate non-Japanese names to Japanese is to use a phonetic translation to katakana.
		This translation method preserves the pronunciation of the name and is a form that would be recognized in Japanese as a name.
		For more information please read How to Write Names in Japanese which are two articles that originally appeared in Eri Takase's monthly column in Martial Arts Insiders Magazine.
	www.takase.com /Names/NameInJapanese.htm (220 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Japanese WWW guide
		Japanese is taught at the Unversity of Oregon by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.
		Center for Applied Japanese Language Studies - Japanese Language teaching information pertaining to the PASS (Proficiency-based Admissions Standard System) legislation being phased in in the state of Oregon.
		The National Institute for Japanese Language - An institute founded to provide the organization and facilities for scientific research on the Japanese language.
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/japanese.html (581 words)

	Jim Breen's Japanese Page
		Japanese Text Initiative of the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center (also indexed under Literature) now has a Japanese Text Portal, which enables an automatic dictionary lookup of selected words using a linked WWWJDIC mirror.
		Japanese educational resources is the one built and maintained by Charles Kelly.
		The Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL) is an initiative of the law faculties at the Australian National University (ANU), the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Sydney (USyd).
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/japanese.html#links_software (11415 words)

	Concordia Language Village - Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Japanese is the only official language of Japan, and Japan is the only country to have Japanese as an official language.
		It is spoken in countries such as Brazil, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Japan, and the United States.
		Japanese is offered in November at our Turtle River Lake sites near Bemidji, Minn. click here to learn more!
	clvweb.cord.edu /prweb/japanese (300 words)

	Japanese Translation. Japanese to English Translation and Localization For Documents, Websites and Software
		With a large network of in-country, bilingual Japanese translators, WorldLingo can respond quickly and effectively to your Japanese language translation needs.
		WorldLingo's Japanese translation teams are professional linguists performing translation from English to Japanese and Japanese to English for a range of documents in various industries including:
		Each WorldLingo Japanese translator is selected based on their experience and special areas of expertise.
	www.worldlingo.com /en/languages/japanese_translation.html (314 words)

	FreeBSD Ports: Japanese
		A Japanese dictionary for CG (EPWING V1 format)
		A Japanese input method (this is not free)
		Japanese translation of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
	www.freebsd.org /ports/japanese.html (1443 words)

	Japanese Language
		During the years I've studied Japanese, I've compiled numerous lists about segments of the language.
		It seems like every Japanese dictionary and encyclopedia has collected a different set of the Japanese "numeral classifiers." The definition is fairly broad, ranging to almost "any word which can directly follow a number." Here's a list of some 500, casting a very fine net, including measurements and currencies which should probably be regarded separately.
		An index to all the Japanese words and phrases discussed in the Mizutanis' Nihongo Notes series, Affective Expressions in Japanese, and Japanese Words and their Uses.
	www.trussel.com /f_nih.htm (873 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:jpn
		Bostrom, Mark W. The pitch-accent component of Japanese phonology: a description demonstrating the usefulness of phonotactically motivated rules.
		Martin, Dorothy J. A text-based study of clause chaining in Japanese.
		This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=jpn (210 words)

	Language Browser: Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This page contains a list of interesting reports based around the 10965 titles in the IMDb with Japanese dialogue.
		The form below allows you to search the database for titles with Japanese dialogue only.
		The A-Z index enables you to browse the titles alphabetically.
	us.imdb.com /Sections/Languages/Japanese (83 words)

	Jim Breen's Japanese Page
		Japanese input work with the Kurumin distribution of Linux.
		The kenkyuukai interactive online community for students of the Japanese language.
		Ridgeback Press publishes about Japanese history (particularly the Meiji Restoration).
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/japanese.html#links_japancomp (11415 words)

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