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Pages in category "Japanese people of Trinidad and Tobago descent" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The total population of Trinidad and Tobago was 1,328,019 according to the 2011 census, [8] an increase of 5.2 per cent since the 2000 census. According to the 2012 revision of the World Population Prospects the total population was estimated at 1,328,000 in 2010, compared to only 646,000 in 1950.
Yotsugana (四つ仮名, literally "four kana") are a set of four specific kana, じ, ぢ, ず, づ (in the Nihon-shiki romanization system: zi, di, zu, du), used in the Japanese writing system. They historically represented four distinct voiced morae (syllables) in the Japanese language. However, most dialects, such as Standard Japanese ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Yojijukugo in the broad sense refers to Japanese compound words consisting of four kanji characters, which may contain an idiomatic meaning or simply be a compound noun. [3] However, in the narrow or strict sense, the term refers only to four- kanji compounds that have a particular (idiomatic) meaning, which cannot be inferred from the meanings ...
Post-1543 Portuguese was the initial contact language with Europeans, but this was later replaced by Dutch after the Japanese removed Portuguese people from the country. [3] The Japanese government conducted negotiations with Western authorities in Dutch until around 1870. [4] Since then English became the primary language of interaction with ...
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Their languages comprise the Ryukyuan languages, [11] one of the two branches of the Japonic language family (the other being Japanese and its dialects). [12] The Ryukyuans have a distinct culture with some matriarchal elements, native religion , and cuisine which had fairly late (12th century) introduction of rice .