Japanese language

===Modern Japanese===
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Modern Japanese is considered to begin with the [[Edo period]] (which spanned from 1603 to 1867). Since Old Japanese, the ''de facto'' standard Japanese had been the [[Kansai dialect]], especially that of [[Kyoto]]. However, during the Edo period, Edo (now Tokyo) developed into the largest city in Japan, and the Edo-area dialect became standard Japanese. Since the end of [[Sakoku|Japan's self-imposed isolation]] in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly. The period since 1945 has seen many words borrowed from other languages{{mdash}}such as German, Portuguese and English.<ref>Miura, Akira, ''English in Japanese'', Weatherhill, 1998.</ref> Many English loan words especially relate to technology{{mdash}}for example, ''pasokon'' (short for "personal computer"), ''intānetto'' ("internet"), and ''kamera'' ("camera"). Due to the large quantity of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between {{IPA|[tɕi]}} and {{IPA|[ti]}}, and {{IPA|[dʑi]}} and {{IPA|[di]}}, with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hall |first=Kathleen Currie |title=Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association |year=2013 |editor-last=Luo |editor-first=Shan |chapter=Documenting phonological change: A comparison of two Japanese phonemic splits |access-date=2019-06-01 |chapter-url=http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2013/Hall-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212034227/http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2013/Hall-2013.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-12 |url-status=live}}</ref>