Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction

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ISBN: 9780415305754 | 0415305756
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/14/2003

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What did eighth century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Sanskrit and Tibetan sources, and enables the reader to approximate the original pronunciation of Old Japanese literature.

Illustrations

viii

Acknowledgments

xii

Abbreviations, symbols, and conventions

xiii

Introduction

(4)

Early transcriptions of Japanese

(38)

Sinographs, semantograms, and (ongana) phonograms

(1)

Transcriptions of pre-Old Japanese in Chinese histories

(3)

Pre-Suiko-Period transcriptions

(3)

Suiko Period transcriptions

(5)

Post-Suiko-Period transcriptions

(11)

The transcriptions of Nihon shoki

(12)

Summary

(3)

Previous research on phonograms

(23)

Overview

(1)

Premodern research

(6)

Modern research

(12)

Summary

(5)

Japanese phonology through time

(23)

Overview

(1)

Consonants

(10)

Vowels

(9)

Summary

(3)

Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, and Sinoxenic

(69)

Overview

(2)

Internal sources for earlier Chinese

(7)

Sinoxenic (SX) sources for earlier Chinese

(37)

Other external sources for earlier Chinese

135

(3)

The reconstruction of Old Chinese

138

(5)

The reconstruction of Early Middle Chinese

143

(6)

The reconstruction of Late Middle Chinese

149

(7)

Summary

156

(2)

Goals and methodology

158

(6)

Goals

158

(1)

Methodology

158

(6)

The reconstruction of Old Japanese consonants

164

(34)

Overview

164

(1)

OJ p

164

(2)

OJ b

166

(2)

OJ m

168

(2)

OJ w

170

(1)

OJ t

171

(2)

OJ d

173

(2)

OJ n

175

(1)

OJ r

176

(1)

OJ s

177

(6)

OJ z

183

(3)

OJ y

186

(1)

OJ k

187

(4)

OJ g

191

(3)

OJ θ

194

(2)

Summary

196

(2)

The reconstruction of Old Japanese vowels

198

(67)

Overview

198

(1)

OJ a

198

(5)

OJ yi

203

(4)

OJ u

207

(4)

OJ o

211

(6)

OJ iy

217

(4)

OJ ye

221

(6)

OJ ey

227

(5)

OJ wo

232

(6)

OJ i

238

(6)

OJ e

244

(6)

OJ o

250

(12)

Summary

262

(3)

Conclusion

265

(8)

Bibliography

273

(12)

Index

285

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