Old Japanese
A Phonetic Reconstruction
By Marc Hideo Miyake
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-30575-4
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 25th September 2003
- Pages: 312
About the Book
What did eighth century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Sanskrit and Tibetan sources, and enables the reader to approximate the original pronunciation of Old Japanese literature.
About the Author(s)
Born and raised in Hawaii, Marc Hideo Miyake is a historical phonologist specialising in east Asian languages. He was a visiting scholar at Leiden University and was a visiting professor of East Asian Languages and Linguistics at the University of Oregon. His publications include 'Early Chinese Loanwords in Korean and Japanese' in
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 6.
