比較言語学. Japanese as compared to the other languages of the world, from a linguistics perspective.
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Reading fractions
In Japanese (and other East Asian languages), the denominator of a fraction is read as a part of the modifier to the numerator:
3分の5
'five that was divided by three'
'five thirds'
This indicates that East Asian languages interpret fractions as…
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Is there a study available on the similarities between Japanese and Turkish grammars?
No I'm not claiming the Altaic hypothesis so try not to bring that up in answers.
Still there are grammatical similarities between Japanese and Turkish such as agglutination and use of postpositions rather than prepositions. My knowledge of Japanese…
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Does Korean hanja usage correspond to Japanese kun'yomi and on'yomi kanji usage?
For those who are versed in both Korean and Japanese. To add a bit of context, I've searched info on Korean hanja usage for some time, but none of the sources clearly stated that hanja may serve the same purpuse as kun'yomi does in kanji. As far as…
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売買の買とbuyの関係はあります？
買 in 売買{ばいばい} is pronounced ばい. The word "to buy", which is the translation of 買う, sounds the same. Is there some sort of connection?! 親父ギャグだけなのか…？
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Why are counters necessary to describe the quantity of objects?
Why are counters (助数詞) necessary to describe the numerical quantity of objects in Japanese?
I'm interested in the linguistic explanation specifically, but also curious as to how strict those who are fluent tend to be about it in colloquial…
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Suffix as defined in romanized Japanese morphological analysis
Older grammar books tend to rely on a lot of romanization to teach the nitty-gritty of morphology, which is also reflected in some of @snail's answers like this one. I was reading Samuel Elmo Martin's 1975 book Reference Grammar of Japanese and…
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Usage of ている in Punctual Verbs in Japanese and the Concept of Present Perfect in English
Answer to the first question has been given by ナルトさん. But any new answers or thoughts or suggestions are really appreciated!!
Answer to the second question can be extended, as only a touchstone was laid down by ナルトさん, and this is a limitless…
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Usage of している in cases of talking about experience
I have a doubt regarding the use of している in cases of punctual verbs. I inferred it out that the difference between た form i.e. the Japanese past form and ている (When it is used in Perfectual Sense) it has almost (Though there are minor differences)…
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Does Japanese make the distinction between "-ing" and "-ed" adjectives?
In English and other similar languages, there is usually a clear distinction between adjectives that describe things that create a certain sentiment and adjectives used to describe that sentiment itself, for example "tiring" vs "tired",…
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Are there words or phrases that are commonly mistyped by native speakers on the Internet?
Like how it is common to see their/there and "could/would/should of" instead of "could/would/should have" in English discussions.
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Confuse about the definition of yakimochi
Is there any linguist said about yakimochi (焼餅) definition? I mean any research of that word?
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What could be our Honbu name?
In Japan and in Japanese the Honbu of Judo is called Kodakan [講道館] or a place for the study of the way... I would like to know, if in appropriate Japanese language it would be possible to discover a word that could be a "place for the study of" an…
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Japanese without Kanji
Everyone says Japanese is a hard language, but if you remove the Kanji learning part from it, is it just as easy as any other language which just has a different writing system?
Is spoken Japanese easier or harder than other common European…
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