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Similar to English, a falling tone denotes a statement, and a rising tone a question. Its use to mark statements tends to be more typical of feminine speech. See also Gender differences in spoken Japanese. Nouns: possession ex. a sensei no kuruma 先生の車: the teacher's car Noun: possession ex. b watashi no konpyuuta 私の ...
Uto (鳥兎) or Miken (眉間): Between the eyes, nation; Kasumi (霞): Temple of the head; Jinchu (人中): Below the nose, philtrum; Zen-keibu (前頸部): Front side of neck with the Adam's apple; Gwanto or Kachikake or Shita-ago (下顎): Point of the chin; Dokko (独鈷): Mastoid process; Suigetsu (水月) or Mizu-ochi (水落): Solar plexus
Uchi–soto is the distinction between in-groups (内, uchi, "inside") and out-groups (外, soto, "outside"). [1] This distinction between groups is a fundamental part of Japanese social custom and sociolinguistics and is even directly reflected in the Japanese language itself.
Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment. Its phrases are exclusively head-final and compound sentences are exclusively left-branching. [a] Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions.
It applies only to words in which the ie or ei stands for a clear /ee/ sound and unless this is known, words such as sufficient, veil and their look like exceptions. There are so few words where the ei spelling for the / ee / sound follows the letter c that it is easier to learn the specific words: receive , conceive , deceive (+ the related ...
The second mora rises and falls quickly. If words or particles attach to the end of the word, the fall is sometimes not realized: L-HL, L-HL(-L) or L-H(-L) The second mora does not fall. If high-initial words or particles attach to the end of the word, both moras are low: L-H, L-L(-H)
The dialects (方言, hōgen) of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including modern capital Tokyo) and Western (including old capital Kyoto), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. [1]
Forms in italics denote either Old English words as they appear in spelling or reconstructed forms of various sorts. Where phonemic ambiguity occurs in Old English spelling, extra diacritics are used (ċ, ġ, ā, ǣ, ē, ī, ō, ū, ȳ). Forms between /slashes/ or [brackets] indicate, respectively, broad or narrow pronunciation.