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Mount Yonaha
, also known as in Okinawan language, Okinawan, is a mountain in Kunigami, Okinawa, Kunigami on the main island of Okinawa Island, Okinawa in Okinawa Prefecture. It has an Topographical summit, elevation of , but Yonaha-dake triangulation station is located at the next peak of elevation of . Etymology "Mount Yonaha" in the Japanese language is formed from three kanji, , and . The kanji are ateji, or kanji used phonetically to represent native or borrowed words. Geography Mount Yonaha is approximately north of the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, Naha, Okinawa, Naha, and approximately east of the of Kunigami. It is formed from schist, phyllite, and sandstone, and dates from the Tertiary period to the mid-Mesozoic era. It appears as a gentle slope, but its summit is surrounded by a series of complex valleys. It is the highest mountain on the island and the second highest in the prefecture after Mount Omoto in Ishigaki, Okinawa. It is part of the Okinawa Kaigan Quasi-National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
