I am trying to determine the rules governing certain vowel shifts in the Umpaku (Izumo) dialect. I can't really see any pattern in the audio recordings that I have or in the Linguistic Atlas of Japan, so my current best guess (and it really is little more than a guess) is that the shift actually stopped being productive a short time after modern Japanese emerged and thus only applies to words that entered common usage before that point. To confirm that guess I need to know when exactly some of the modern words became common.
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I am trying to determine the rules governing certain vowel shifts in the Umpaku (Izumo) dialect. I can't really see any pattern in the audio recordings that I have or in the Linguistic Atlas of Japan, so my current best guess (and it really is little more than a guess) is that the shift actually stopped being productive a short time after modern Japanese emerged and thus only applies to words that entered common usage before that point. To confirm that guess I need to know when exactly some of the modern words became common.
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Are these symbols Korean or Japanese?
This was in the garage of a house we moved into. The previous owner had been stationed in Korea and had visited Japan. Would anybody know what…
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Polish translation, please
A coworker gave my dad this bottle of vodka (it has grass in it!), and I'm dying to know what the text says. Can anyone help?
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諦める and 諦めがつく
Is there a difference between 諦める and 諦めがつく?
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