Japanese loanwords in Hawaii
Japanese loanwords in Hawaii Spam musubi made from SPAM. (see definition ... from different languages. Due to the many Japanese immigrants and the large Japanese American population in Hawai'i, many ...
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Talk:Japanese loanwords in Hawaii
Talk:Japanese loanwords in Hawaii While I was writing this, some questions ... of this word? It's not standard Japanese. mauiboy 18:10, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC) Why are the japanese words written in combinations of kanjii ...
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Japanese language
Japanese language Japanese (日本語 Nihongo) Spoken in: Japan, Hawaii, Brazil, Guam, Marshall Islands, Palau, Taiwan Total ... Ranking: 9 Language family: Altaic (disputed) Japonic Japanese Official status Official language of: Angaur (Palau ... may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Japanese (日本語, (help· info ) ) is a language ...
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Talk:List of English words of Japanese origin
Talk:List of English words of Japanese origin Old discussions That's finished copying ... from other articles. Can someone fluent in Japanese check this article, please? -- Anon. The majority ... words found here are simply romanization of japanese words that have no common usage in ... meaning or usage different from the original Japanese or if its spelling is anglicized. haiku ... 333;fu tycoon Zen ginkgo (not recognizably Japanese) go koi (commonly "koi fish" but ...
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Kanji
... for the Australian shrub, see Kanji bush. Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 ... help· info ) , literally "Han characters"), is the Japanese term for Chinese characters (Hanzi), the Chinese ... and the Roman alphabet, to write modern Japanese. This article focuses on the Japanese use of Kanji. For a general discussion ... Chinese text with diacritical marks to allow Japanese speakers to read it in accordance ...
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Talk:Tsunami/Archive1
... else add this info I am a Japanese(so that I can't write English ... boat can land. Nami means wave. Usually Japanese does not know why TSUNAMI comes from ... village. That's my best guess from Japanese knowledge. We Japanese believes that usually Tsunami is caused by a bigearthquake. Arigato.(Massy,SC Japanese redneck) It would be interesting to ...
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Chinese language
... pronunciation of the borrowed Chinese characters in Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean also provide valuable insights ... unrelated languages such as Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese. Korean and Japanese both have writing systems employing Chinese characters ... also have a very large number of loanwords from Chinese. 50% or more of Korean ... of Chinese origin and the influence on Japanese and Vietnamese has been considerable. 10% ...
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Talk:American English/Archive 2
... don't know if it's from japanese. I've also heard it pronounced "skótsh ... like this being borrowed into English from Japanese (or borrowed into any language for that ... etymology. Also, I don't think the Japanese population in the USA would be sufficient ... article. I won't pretend to speak Japanese, so I'm unsure what "sukoshi" means, precisely, in Japanese, but I can tell you that ...
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Talk:Altaic languages
... not have proven a genetic relationship of Japanese or Korean, but the syntax is so ... the same place they would be in Japanese (a language I have written 7 books ... knew it because Tamil sounded just like Japanese (Niigata prefecture, to be exact). I had ... theory; with the addition of Korean and Japanese in extended 'Macro' versions) are genetically or ... Altaic' theories are based on typology and loanwords. Both Uralic and 'Altaic' languages do ...
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Talk:Hapa
... it as a word used for part-Japanese people who came from Hawai'i and ... nephews are all of this and part Japanese and Okinawan too; they are hapa. Please ... it is borrowed. I respectfully disagree. Many loanwords to English have acquired significant difference in ... hapa" used in English or Pidgin in Hawaii; however, I am certain that in the ... can be a touchy subject. Here in Hawaii it is understood that hapa has ...
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