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This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. The first part of this study is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language. The second part deals extensively with Japanese. It discusses topics from the evolution of the writing system to issues of greater theoretical complexity.Shibatani, Masayoshi is the author of 'Languages of Japan' with ISBN 9780521360708 and ISBN 0521360706.
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