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The study concentrates on the phonetic fusions in Japanese, which is a feature typical of flective languages. It also poses the question whether the inflective features are relics of more ancient phases of the language or rather of the recent : What is the tendency, from inflective to agglutinative or vice versa, and is fusion in Japanese declining or developing?
The Ryukyus (generally called Ruuchuu in the local dialects) with the central island of Okinawa (Uchinaa) are inhabited by people whose tongue is a very curious idiom which some linguists regard as an extreme branch of southern Japanese dialects. It seems, however, more correct to specify it as a separate language and the only language relative to Japanese. A survey of its fusional features will serve...
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