The Languages of Japan
Masayoshi (Rice University, Houston) Shibatani
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. The first part of this study is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language. The second part deals extensively with Japanese. It discusses topics from the evolution of the writing system to issues of greater theoretical complexity.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521369183
- ISBN-10
- 0521369185
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1990
- Publication date
- 1990-05-03
- Pages
- 428
- Dimensions
- 236x171x28
- Weight
- 63