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Premaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This article provides a comparative evaluation of Chinese character reform in the People's Republic of China and Japan, with a particular focus on the latest changes announced in 2009 to the existing script policies in the two countries. The first Chinese script reform took place in 1956 and the first Japanese script reform in 1946, both for the…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Backhouse, A. E. – 1993
This guide provides an overview of the salient features of the Japanese language from the perspective of the beginning-level English-speaking learner. Chapters address these topics: the Japanese language and its historic and cultural setting; phonology (sounds and syllables, word accentuation; loanwords; connected speech); writing (scripts,…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar