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Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Comprising twelve substantial volumes, the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics (HJLL) series provides a comprehensive survey of practically all the major research areas of Japanese linguistics on an unprecedented scale, together with surveys of the endangered languages spoken in Japan, Ryukyuan and Ainu. What follows are introductions to the individual handbooks, to the general conventions adopted in this series, and an overview of the minimum essentials of contemporary Standard Japanese. Fuller descriptions of the languages of Japan, Japanese grammar, and the history of the Japanese language are available in such general references as , . Geography, population, and languages of Japan Japan is situated in the most populous region of the world -Asia, where roughly one half of the world population of seven billion speak a variety of languages, many of which rank in the top tier among languages of the world in terms of number of native speakers. Japanese is spoken by more than 128 million people (as of 2013), who live mostly in Japan but also in Japanese emigrant communities around the world, most notably Ha

Author

Masayoshi Shibatani; Taro Kageyama

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501501494