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| | |  Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese dictionaries - Japanese-Japanese Dictionaries
Although the Kōjien is generally regarded as the most authoritative single-volume Japanese-Japanese dictionary, multi-volume competitors also exist, and these are in some cases able to offer a greater level of detail.
Kojien
Nihon kokugo daijiten
Shin Meikai kokugo jiten
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese dialects - Western Japanese
Japanese dialects - Hokuriku.
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Toyama-ben is spoken in Toyama prefecture. Instead of the standard, shitte imasuka? or colloquial shitte iru? for "Do you know?" Toyama-ben speakers will say, shittorukke? Other regional distinctions include words like kitokito for fresh and delicious.
Other distinctions include the negative past tense being formed differently from standard Japanese as follows:
Standard Japanese: kon ...
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Learning Japanese Learning Japanese involves understanding grammar, pronunciation, the writing system, and acquiring adequate vocabulary. While the sound system is simple to master compared with those of other languages, the writing system poses a challenge for those not used to Chinese characters. On the other hand one learns a lot about Japanese culture by studying kanji characters. Japanese students begin to learn kanji characters from their first grade of an elementary school. A guideline created by the Japanese Ministry of Education, the kyōiku kanji, s ...
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese dialects - Eastern Japanese
Japanese dialects - Hokkaidō.
The residents of Hokkaido Prefecture are (relatively) recent arrivals from all parts of Japan, and this combination of influences has resulted in a set of regionalisms sometimes called Hokkaido-ben. Hokkaido-ben appears to have been influenced most significantly by Tohoku-ben, not surprising due to Hokkaido's geographic proximity to northeastern Honshu. Characteristics of Hokkaido-ben include speech that contains fewer gender-specific differences, a rich vocabulary of regiona ...
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese dictionaries - Collation Japanese dictionaries are usually collated (ordered) in the order of the words in kana, the phonetically based syllabary of Japanese, rather than the radical system used in Chinese dictionaries. The usual ordering of the kana is the gojūon system.
Kanji dictionaries are usually ordered using the same radical and stroke order method used in Chinese dictionaries.
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese funeral - Japanese funeral industry Funerals in Japan are among the most expensive funerals in the world. The average cost of a Japanese funeral is about 1,5 Mil. Yen (USD 14,000) according to a 2003 study by the Japan Consumer’s Association (Other sources state: USD 40,000, 3.8 million yen/USD 32,000 (1995), USD 22,000), not including mandatory additional services as for example about 380,000 yen (US$ 3,500) for the wake, or 480,000 yen (US$ 4,400) for the services of the priest. Overall, the industry has a revenue of about 1,5 trillion Yen (about 15 Billion USD) with about ...
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese phonology - Prosody In Japanese, an accented mora is pronounced with higher pitch than the following mora. This is part of the Japanese intonation pattern.
See also Japanese pitch accent.
Japanese does have a distinct intonation pattern. This pattern can be heard not only in individual words, but also in whole sentences. Intonation is produced by a rise and fall in pitch over certain syllables. In the case of questions, the Japanese intonation patterns bear little resemblance to the English ones. This is a large source of confusion for many non-native speakers.
The Japanese in ...
See also:Japanese phonology, Japanese phonology - Consonants, Japanese phonology - Vowels, Japanese phonology - Phonological processes, Japanese phonology - Consonant processes, Japanese phonology - Vowel processes, Japanese phonology - Moras and phonotactics, Japanese phonology - Prosody, Japanese phonology - Notes, Japanese phonology - Bibliography Read more here: » Japanese phonology: Encyclopedia II - Japanese phonology - Prosody |
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese numerals - Basic numbering in Japanese There are two ways of writing the numbers in Japanese, in Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3) or in Chinese numerals (一, ニ, 三). The Arabic numerals are more often used in horizontal writing, and the Chinese numerals are more common in vertical writing.
(Some numbers have multiple names.)
* In modern Japanese, yaoyorozu means something more like "myriad", and is mainly found in set phrases. Historically, however, it simply meant 8 million.
The numbers 4 and 9 are considered unlucky in Japanese: 4, pronounced shi ...
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese phonology - Vowels Japanese has 5 vowels:
[i, ɯ̹̈ ~ ü̜, e̞, o̞, ä]
Japanese vowels are pronounced as monophthongs, unlike in English; they are similar to their Spanish counterparts. However, the high back vowel /ü̜/ is somewhat fronted as well as "compressed", rather than rounded as [u] or unrounded as [ɯ]. Mor ...
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Classification 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. An older view, still widely held by some linguists and many non-linguists, is that Japanese is a language isolate.
As for its relation to other languages, there are several theories (presented roughly in descending order of certainty):
Japanese is a member of the Altaic language family. Other languages in this group include Mongolian, Tungusi ...
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| | | | Japanese: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Sounds Japanese vowels are "pure" sounds, similar to their Italian or Spanish counterparts. The only unusual vowel is the high back vowel /ɯ/, which is like /u/, but unrounded. Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, so each one has both a short and a long version.
Some Japanese consonants have several allophones, which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have sinc ...
See also:Japanese language, Japanese language - Classification, Japanese language - Geographic distribution, Japanese language - Official status, Japanese language - Dialects, Japanese language - Sounds, Japanese language - Grammar, Japanese language - Sentence structure, Japanese language - Inflection and conjugation, Japanese language - Politeness, Japanese language - Vocabulary, Japanese language - Writing system, Japanese language - Learning Japanese, Japanese language - Bibliography Read more here: » Japanese language: Encyclopedia II - Japanese language - Sounds |
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