Japanese Natural Languages Linguistics

Japanese

This category is dedicated to the Japanese language, its complicated written structure of Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana; its numerous dialects, grammar, and all other aspects of communication in Japanese.

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• - Essay on "Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language"
  
• - Dedicated to Japanese/English Translation (and translators)
  
• - The history of kanji and how it came to be used in Japanese writing.
  
• - Site devoted to the study of kanji in the light of their history and place within Chinese and Japanese civilization.
  
• - Writings on the kanji character system.
  
• - Introduces a new kanji on each weekday, with readings, meanings and examples. On weekends the week's kanji are reviewed. The site can be viewed on any computer, no Japanese fonts are required.
  
• - Japanese and English language webring for those interested in learning these languages.
  
• - Long linguistic paper by John C. Maher concerning the derivation of Japanese from a creolized koiné, with its major sources from the Altaic and Austronesian language families.
  
• - Large database of the Japanese Language. From lessons for beginners to advanced grammatical structures.
  
• - This Kanji Study Group website teaches written Japanese language for free. Indexed kanji references, quick look-ups, and primers on kanji, hiragana and katakana.
  
• - This three-volume textbook series and accompanying interactive CD-ROM program stresses Japanese as it is spoken today in Japan.
  
• - A column appearing every third Friday in The Japan Times aiming at providing practical advice to non-Japanese adults striving to become literate in Japanese by learning the 1,945 general-use kanji. It is written by Mary Sisk Noguchi, associate professor a
  
• - This site teaches classical Japanese through poems and extracts from literary classics. Grammatical points are explained.
  
• - Free online kanji lessons and links to Japanese-related sites.
  
• - A slang resource for Japanese language enthusiasts interested in learning colloquial speech terminology.
  
• - Scholarly study of the syntax of the six most common post-nominal particles in Japanese, by Frederik Kortlandt.
  
• - Web-based bulletin board system for learning Japanese.
  
• - The Japanese Language Research Center.
  
  

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