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Taeko (singer)
Taeko is a Japanese female given name. It can have various meanings depending on the Kanji used. Possible writing include: 妙子 "mysterious child" 多恵子 "many blessings, child" People * Taeko Fukao, Japanese jazz singer * Taeko Hattori (b. 1949), a Japanese stage, film, and television actress * Taeko Ishikawa (b. 1975), Japanese softball player * Taeko Kawasumi (b. 1972), Japanese football player * Taeko Kawata (b. 1965), a Japanese voice actress * Taeko Kono (b. 1926), a Japanese novelist and essayist * Taeko Kubo (b. 1949), Japanese diver * Taeko Kunishima, Japanese jazz pianist * ''Taeko Kuwata'' (b. 1945), half of the classical piano duo Duo Crommelynck * Taeko Nakanishi (b. 1931), a Japanese voice actress * Taeko Namba, a Japanese table tennis player * Taeko Onuki (b. 1953), a Japanese singer * Taeko Oyama (b. 1974), Japanese basketball player * Taeko Takeba (b. 1966), Japanese trap shooter * Taeko Todo (b. 1968), Chinese-born table tennis * Taeko Tomioka (b. 1 ... [...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] |
