Re: was Punk Ekk, now Japanese

Main article: Japanese dialects
Dozens of dialects are spoken in Japan. The profusion
is due to many factors, including the length of time
the archipelago has been inhabited, its mountainous
island terrain, and Japan's long history of both
external and internal isolation. Dialects typically
differ in terms of pitch accent, inflectional
morphology, vocabulary, and particle usage. Some even
differ in vowel and consonant inventories, although
this is uncommon.
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My elder daughter is friend with a Japanese-born girl,
they usually teach one another Japanese and Chinese,
and my daughter has explained me that
baka "stupid" is pronounced as [baqa] by her friend,
with some uvular stop close to Semitic q
something that is not even hinted at in Japanese learn-books.
I'm ready to believe Japanese is not at all *one* thing.

Arnaud
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