Brief History Of Japanese English

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Japanese, like any other languages, has continued to develop for centuries. As stated elsewhere, Japanese includes new vocabulary, spellings, pronunciations, dialects. For hundred of years, other changes have begun and affected language facilities.
Japan is the rooted in the archanic languages found throughout Asia (Hall, 1968). It is also in the East Asian languages included by Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese, is spoken by 125 people, primarily in Japan. In addition, the origin of Japanese may also belong to the Malay languages which include native Australian and Polynesian (Hall). Similarities between these languages (Japanese, Korean and Polynesian), sentence structure, pronunciation, and classic vocabulary for body parts and nature are the same (Kotmasu, 1962). Above all, Japanese language is also a member of well- known Japonic language family included Japanese languages ( Hachijo Japanese, Eastern Japanese, Western Japanese, Kyushu Japanese), Ryukyuan languages with Northern Ryukyuan ( Amami language, Kunigami language, Okinawa language) and Southern Ryukyuan ( Miyako language, Yaeyama language, Okinawa language) and Ainu languages. …show more content…

In the early 17th century to the mid 19th century, the standard dialect from the Kansai region was moved to Edo (now is Tokyo). Following the end in 1853, English loanwords increased significantly and it also bacame the roots in Japanese words. Although Korean is the most closely related to Japanese today, it still has its own special features. The Japanese writing system consists of two character types are Kanji and Kana. Logographic Kanji, which is adopted several thousands of Chinese characters,

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