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PHONETIC FUSIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF OKINAWA AND A COMPARISON WITH MAINLAND JAPANESE

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Rumánek I. R. V.

Asian and African Studies

2004

vol. 13

issue 2

179 - 190

The Ryukyus (generally called Ruuchuu in the local dialects) with the central island of Okinawa (Uchinaa) are inhabited by people whose tongue is a very curious idiom which some linguists regard as an extreme branch of southern Japanese dialects. It seems, however, more correct to specify it as a separate language and the only language relative to Japanese. A survey of its fusional features will serve to support this claim, as they are of a much more radical nature and interfere with the fundamental character of the language much more than is the case with mainland Japanese.

PHONETIC FUSIONS IN JAPANESE

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Rumánek I. R. V.

Asian and African Studies

2004

vol. 13

issue 1

81 - 103

The study concentrates on the phonetic fusions in Japanese, which is a feature typical of flective languages. It also poses the question whether the inflective features are relics of more ancient phases of the language or rather of the recent : What is the tendency, from inflective to agglutinative or vice versa, and is fusion in Japanese declining or developing?

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PHONETIC FUSIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF OKINAWA AND A COMPARISON WITH MAINLAND JAPANESE

PHONETIC FUSIONS IN JAPANESE