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  2. Non-native speech database - Wikipedia

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    In the table of non-native databases some abbreviations for language names are used. They are listed in Table 1. Table 2 gives the following information about each corpus: The name of the corpus, the institution where the corpus can be obtained, or at least further information should be available, the language which was actually spoken by the speakers, the number of speakers, the native ...

  3. Japanese language - Wikipedia

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    The original language of Japan, or at least the original language of a certain population that was ancestral to a significant portion of the historical and present Japanese nation, was the so-called yamato kotoba (大和言葉) or infrequently 大和詞, i.e. "Yamato words"), which in scholarly contexts is sometimes referred to as wago (和語 ...

  4. List of countries by English-speaking population - Wikipedia

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    The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.

  5. Languages of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The oral languages spoken by the native peoples of the insular country of Japan at present and during recorded history belong to either of two primary phyla of human language: Japonic languages. Japanese language (See also Japanese dialects) Hachijō Japanese; Eastern Japanese; Western Japanese; Kyūshū Japanese; Ryūkyūan languages

  6. Category:Lists of Japanese people - Wikipedia

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    List of shoguns; List of Japanese spies, 1930–1945; List of spouses of prime ministers of Japan; List of people on the postage stamps of Japan; Japanese students in the United Kingdom; List of Japanese supercentenarians

  7. Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers

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    The Japanese liquid is most often realized as an alveolar tap [ɾ], though there is some variation depending on phonetic context. [1] /r/ of American English (the dialect Japanese speakers are typically exposed to) is most commonly a postalveolar central approximant with simultaneous secondary pharyngeal constriction [ɹ̠ˤ] or less commonly a retroflex approximant [ɻ].

  8. Wasei-eigo - Wikipedia

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    Wasei-eigo is distinct from Engrish, the misuse or corruption of the English language by native Japanese speakers, as it consists of words used in Japanese conversation, not an attempt at speaking English. [6] These include acronyms and initialisms particular to Japan (see list of Japanese Latin alphabetic abbreviations).

  9. Category:English-language writers from Japan - Wikipedia

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    Anglophone Japanese writers are persons of Japanese nationality who are authors of works in the English language. Pages in category "English-language writers from Japan" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.