… language, Japanese (Mashiko 1997). In other words, the establishment of the Japanese nation
required Japanese language spread … of the Japanese nation, Japanese was thus spread …

… /Language Dispersal hypothesis as applied to Japan relates to the introduction of agriculture
and spread of the Japanese language (… from present-day Japanese and prehistoric Jōmon …

… in the Japanese education system and media. Finally, the chapter discusses the influence
of English on the Japanese language as well as the role which the English language plays …

… now polluting the Japanese language has been spread by the … actual function of the shop,
a 24-hour convenience store that is … of the spread of English throughout Japanese culture and …

… language shift is always the outcome of language spread, language shift can also occur
without language spread… with one of the languages in its repertoire, that language need not be …

… number of non-Japanese students in need of Japanese language support increased by 46.5
… Japanese language and culture, trying to converge learners’ behaviours 24 Ryuoko Kubota …

… Japanese, and on how elements from these languages are modified when they are incorporated
into Japanese, Professor Loveday offers a general model for understanding language …

… in Japanese language policy documents. It will explore in particular the ways in which ideologies
of nationalism and Japanese … In this document, Japanese language spread has a dual …

… disparity arises in language families as daughter languages spread or are carried into
different population areas and gradually acquire some of the population markers of the new areas…

This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No
genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ …