Origins of Japanese

This makes a good match for Bob Ramsey's "The Japanese language and the Japanese people" (12/30/25).

Just how yuniku ユニク ("unique") is Japanese?

 

Selected readings

• "Circumspection, circumlocution, irresolution, and indecisiveness in Japanese" (1/11/22)
• "The birth of modern Japanese language and literature in the Literary Sinitic context" (3/20/21)