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	The Japonic Language Family
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		The Japonic languages are believed to have descended from a common language known as Proto-Japonic.
		Japonic languages are related to extinct languages spoken in the Korean peninsula and Manchuria;
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/JaponicLanguages.html (152 words)

	Japonic languages - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Japonic languages are a language family believed to descend from a common language known as Proto-Japonic.
		Another theory relates the Japonic languages to modern Korean based primarily on near-identical grammar, but there is scarce lexical similarity between the two; supporters of the Fuyu languages theory generally do not include modern Korean as part of that family.
		In the wake of these theories, some argue that the similarity between all these languages is merely a Sprachbund, and that the attested similarities between some or all of these languages are simply the result of their cultures being close geographic neighbors on the Asian mainland over the course of millennia.
	www.music.us /education/J/Japonic-languages.htm (562 words)

	Japanese - Language Directory
		It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex 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.
		Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, but remain divided as to the origins of the Japonic languages.
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/japanese.htm (1734 words)

	Japonic Languages Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Japonic Languages
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	Japanese Japonic Languages Society
		There are no limits as to what you can achieve when you are armed with the language that has great bearing in the world of economy.
		This is because they believe that the language is as complicated as its writing.
		The reason for this is that the grammar for the Japanese language is more consistent and simple that learning it is more easygoing than expected.
	infotut.com /reference/Society/Languages/Japonic/Japanese (514 words)

	Japanese language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verbal forms which indicate the relative status of the speaker to the listener.
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the islands of Okinawa Prefecture.
		Their use is often optional, since Japanese is described as a so-called pro-drop language, i.e., one in which the subject of a sentence does not always need to be stated.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/j/a/p/Japanese_language.html (3271 words)

	Altaic languages - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The relationships among these languages remain a matter of debate among historical linguists, and the existence of Altaic as a family is rejected by many.
		The Japonic languages and Korean are often also included, and Ainu has been suggested by some.
		One is that the proposed constituent language families (Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic in the basic theory; with the addition of Korean and Japanese in extended versions) are genetically or 'divergently' related by descent from a common ancestor, 'Proto-Altaic'.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=824 (414 words)

	Proxy Server Austronesian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		The Austronesian languages tend to use reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word, such as wiki-wiki), and, like many East and Southeast Asian languages, have highly restrictive phonotactics, with small numbers of phonemes and predominantly consonant-vowel syllables.
		The internal structure of the Austronesian languages is difficult to work out, as the family consists of many very similar and very closely related languages with large numbers of dialect continua, making it difficult to recognize boundaries between branches.
	www.efolio.info /b3Jn/d2lraXBlZGlh/ZW4/aHR0cDovL2VuLndpa2lwZWRpYS5vcmcvd2lraS9BdXN0cm9uZXNpYW5fbGFuZ3VhZ2Vz/69/0 (2138 words)

	Dravidian languages - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, and eastern and central India.
		The origins of the Dravidian languages, as well as their subsequent development and the period of their differentiation, are unclear, and the situation is not helped by the lack of comparative linguistic research into the Dravidian languages.
		Dravidian languages are also characterized by a three-way distinction between dental, alveolar, and retroflex places of articulation as well as large numbers of liquids.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=7922 (1189 words)

	Okinawan language - Wikinfo
		Okinawan is a language spoken in Japan, on the southern island of Okinawa, as well as the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kume-jima, Tonaki, Aguni, and a number of smaller islands located to the east of the main island of Okinawa.
		It is part of the Ryukyuan family of languages, which along with Japanese and its dialects make up the Japonic family of languages.
		The Shuri dialect was standardized during the era of the Ryukyuan Kingdom, during the reign of king Sho Shin (1477-1526).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Okinawan_language (631 words)

	Society - Languages - Open Site
		Language is a system of oral or written expression and communication of ideas and emotions or the processes, styles and vocabulary of such systems.
		If you know how to speak another language, you may be sent to other countries as a part of your work or you may even get a promotion.
		Take up foreign language classes – the best thing about taking up classes like these is that you will have a teacher to guide you through the course, plus, you will also be able to keep track of what you have learned.
	open-site.org /Society/Languages (656 words)

	Japanese Language: Article from Wikipedia
		The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan.
		Japanese is a language isolate, unrelated to any other known language except other Japonic languages (notably Okinawan).
		The Ryukyuan languages used in and around Okinawa are related to Japanese, but the two are mutually unintelligible.
	www.japanese-name-translation.com /site/japanese_article.html (3119 words)

	Ural-Altaic languages - Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Finno-Permic languages are Komi, Komi-Permyak, Udmurt, Mari, Erzya, Moksha, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Northern Sami, Inari Sami, Kildin Sami, Skolt Sami, Ter Sami, Estonian, Finnish (including Meänkieli or Tornedalian Finnish, Kven Finnish, and Ingrian Finnish), Ingrian (Izhorian), Karelian, Lude, Olonets Karelian, Livonian, Veps, Võro, and Votic.
		The Ugric languages are Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi
		Other observations are that both Uralic and Altaic languages follow the principle of vowel harmony, are agglutinative (stringing suffixes, prefixes or both onto a single root), employ SOV word order, and lack grammatical gender (see noun class).
	ural-altaic-languages.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Ural-Altaic_languages (1064 words)

	International JFL Cafe. Japanese language information. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The best attested of these is the language of Goguryeo, with the less-attested languages of Baekje and Buyeo hypothesized to also be related because of all these cultures' historic close ties of kinship.
		Kanto-ben is very close to the standard language, and varies essentially in slang; some consider it to be equivalent to the standard language.
		Unlike languages like Chinese, knowing standard Japanese suffices most of the time but it may be necessary to be familiar with local dialects on some occasions.
	internationaleflcafe.com /japanese-language-information.htm (3125 words)

	Japonic languages - Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Japonic languages or Japanese-Ryukyuan languages constitute a language family that is agreed to have descended from a common ancestral language known as Proto-Japonic or Proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan.
		Japonic languages, it is likely to have been one of...
		languages are a hypothetical language family that would relate the languages of Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje and the Japonic languages, and possibly place them...
	japonic-languages.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Japonic_languages (562 words)

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		Theoretical MA Language intersts: the Iranian language family, especially Farsi, Tajik, Pashtu, Yaghnobi and the Pamiri languages.
		Interests: Second language acquisition, bilingual ed pedagogy, maintenance of minority languages, revitalization of endangered languages (esp.Sahaptin), transitivity and voice systems, cognitive consequences of joint attention and SPT for ICALL.
		Languages of the Pacific Northwest, especially the Athabaskan and Penutian families; acoustic phonetics; the interaction of complex phonological and morphological systems; tonogenesis; language preservation and reviatlization; typology of case marking; Finno-Urgic and Uto-Aztecan languages.
	logos.uoregon.edu /students/graduate.html (457 words)

	The Individualist: Dravidian language family
		The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran.
		A few scholars include the Dravidian languages in a larger Elamo-Dravidian language family, which includes the ancient Elamite language of what is now southwestern Iran; but this is not accepted by most linguists.
		Dravidian languages are noted for the lack of distinction between aspirated and unaspirated stops.
	www.dadamo.com /wiki/wiki.pl/Dravidian_language_family (822 words)

	Modern Korean and Koguryo language - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		The nature of the hypothetical Koguryo language has been a hot topic lately as it has been publicized that the language might be the precursor to Japanese.
		Atkinson's friend came up with the number six, but if we stick to a basic linguistic definition of language, we may be able to claim anywhere from five to twenty languages on the peninsula during the three kingdom period.
		Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives: An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?act=findpost&pid=4845193 (3592 words)

	Languages : Altaic Family
		The language used to be written in Chinese characters.
		The Altaic languages have lots of suffixes that can be glued on one after the other to build up quite complex ideas.
		All languages are influenced by languages they are in contact with.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_altaic.html (445 words)

	ipedia.com: Japanese language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Evidence for this theory lies in the fact that like Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, and Korean, Japanese is an agglutinative language, with two (phonologically distinctive) tones, similar to Serbian/Croatian and Swedish.
		Syllables can consist of one or two moras, depending on the presence or absence of a long vowel, a syllable-final "n", or a doubled consonant (really a glottal stop), each of which adds one mora to the syllable length.
		Therefore Japanese, like Chinese, is often called a topic-prominent language, which means it marks topic separately from subject, and the two do not always coincide.
	www.ipedia.com /japanese_language.html (3845 words)

	www.Bia2.com > Japanese language
		However, this feature is hardly unique to Japanese; most languages have words for such cultural features that do not translate into certain other languages.
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the islands of Okinawa (沖縄) Prefecture.
		So Japanese, like Chinese and Korean, is often called a topic-prominent language, which means it indicates the topic separately from the subject, and the two do not always coincide.
	bia2.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t1587.html (3107 words)

	korean > Buyeo+languages
		The Buyeo (PuyÅ) languages are a hypothetical language family that would relate the languages of Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje and the Japonic languages, and possibly place them together as a family...
		The Buyeo (PuyÅ, Fuyu) languages are a hypothetical language family that would relate the languages of Buyeo, Goguryeo, and Baekje with the Japonic languages, and possibly place them together as a...
		the ancient languages attested in the Korean Peninsula, modern Korean is believed to be a descendent of the languages of Samhan and Silla ; it is unknown whether these are related to the Buyeo languages...
	www.koreatour.org.tw /korean/Buyeolanguages.jsp (243 words)

	Japanese language - Gurupedia
		Estonian, Turkish, and Korean, Japanese is an agglutinative language, with two (phonologically distinctive) tones, similar to Serbian/Croatian and Swedish.
		Japanese is therefore said to be a syllable-timed language, although mora-timed would be a more accurate description.
		topic-prominent language, which means it marks topic separately from subject, and the two do not always coincide.
	www.gurupedia.com /j/ja/japanese_language.htm (3446 words)

	Who invented Japanese alphabet? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		* Japanese is a relative of the Altaic language family.
		Furthermore, in terms of phonology, Japanese is quite similar to Uralic languages, though morphology has not been attested to.
		The Japonic languages and Korean are often also included, and Ainu has been suggested by some, into an "Altaic superfamily." However, the evidence for this is not solid enough to do so.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=24705 (780 words)

	Category:Japanese language - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Japanese language is spoken by over 125 million people.
		Its vocabulary is strongly influenced by the Chinese language.
		Japanese is a member of the Japonic language family.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php?title=Category:Japanese_language&printable=yes (54 words)

	Japonic languages Information
		The Japonic languages are a language family believed to descend from a common language known as Proto-Japonic.
		The relationship of the Japonic languages to other languages and language families is uncertain.
		These are described in the article Japanese language classification.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Japonic_languages (175 words)

	Japanese schools
		The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of glyphs: Chinese characters (called kanji), and two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana.
		Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, the other member being Ryukyuan.
		The Ryukyuan 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.
	www.aboutlanguageschools.com /language/japanese (734 words)

	Dravidian languages Articles from SENIORFITNESS.COM Free Article Directory
		Some linguistic scholars incorporate the Dravidian languages into a larger Elamo-Dravidian language family, which includes the ancient Elamite language of what is now south-western Iran.
		Even though the Dravidian languages are thought to be distinctly different from the Indo-Aryan languages, there are thirty to seventy per cent Sanskrit words in south Indian languages like Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, which can be attributed to the heavy borrowing of vocabulary from Sanskrit over the millennia during which the two language families coexisted.
		In addition to Elamite, unsuccessful attempts have also been made to link the family with the Japonic languages, Basque, Korean, Sumerian, the Australian Aboriginal languages and the unknown language of the Indus Valley civilisation.
	www.seniorfitness.com /Dravidian_languages_link.html (470 words)

	Topic:Foreign Language Learning - Wikiversity
		Here you can learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, as well as teach others the languages you speak.
		The study of the structure of a language and its development is called linguistics.
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	en.wikiversity.org /wiki/Topic:Foreign_Language_Learning (162 words)

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