Japanese: Revised Edition

by Shoichi Iwasaki

Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. Japanese has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century CE. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027238189
• ISBN13: 9789027238184
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 383 Pages