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Article Evaluation: Japanese Language

• Article is coherent and logical
• The article does not have extensive content on many topics. However, this is because there are separate Wikipedia pages for these topics. As such, it is not necessary for the main page to hold extensive content.
• Article is unbiased.
• I'm unsure of content accuracy, since many topics go over my head. Some subjects need more than basic information to understand. For people who visit the page to glean information, some sections such as inflection and conjugation may be difficult to understand since they use many technical terms.
• A few places that could use elaboration. ex. phonology section makes a quick mention that Japanese includes a pitch accent system, but there is no more content afterward.
• One section that is about Japanese grammar uses terms like "inflection and conjugation" but could be described better in other terms.
• Examples are relevant, but seem random. It is just a blob of examples.
• There are many blocks of paragraphs that are difficult to read. But thats all wiki articles for the most part.
• Lots of sections start off with just a one off sentence that is not connected to the main body, but does explain the topic. On purpose?
• Writing System sections is strange, is it about the history or purpose or both?

Draft: Japanese Language Changes

• Changes to phonetics sections, adding info onto sentence "The phonology of Japanese also includes a pitch accent system" (Japanese Language, Phonology)

The phonology of Japanese also includes a pitch accent system (original segment), which is a system which helps differentiate words with identical Hiragana spelling or words in different Japanese dialects. An example of words with identical Hiragana would be the words [haꜜ.shi] (chopsticks) and [ha.shiꜜ] (bridge), both spelled (はし, hashi) in Hiragana. The different stresses differentiate the words..

• Changes to dialect section ( in [] is the text currently in the wiki that I want to add on to)

[The imperial court also seems to have spoken an unusual variant of the Japanese of the time.] Most likely being the spoken form of Classical Japanese language, a writing style that was prevalent during the Heian period, but began decline during the late Meiji period.

• History-Modern Japanese

Early Modern Japanese

Early Modern Japanese, not to be confused with Modern Japanese, was the dialect used after the Meiji Restoration. Because the two languages are extremely similar, Early Modern Japanese is commonly referred to as Modern Japanese. Early Modern Japanese gradually evolved into Modern Japanese during the 19th century. Only after 1945, shortly after World War II, did Modern Japanese become the standard language, and saw use in most official communications.

• Geographical Distribution - Dialect, spread of modern Japanese, maybe.

• reorganize Writing System section

Reorganizing Japanese Language:Writing System

Hiragana

Hiragana and Katakana were first simplified from Kanji, and Hiragana, emerging somewhere around the 9th century, was mainly used by women. Hiragana was seen as an informal language, whereas Katakana and Kanji were considered more formal and was typically used by men and in official settings. However, because of hiragana's easy of use, more and more people began using it. Eventually, by the 10th century, hiragana was used by everyone.

Hiragana has changed over the years, and in 1946, as a result of language reforms, a few hiragana were removed. These hiragana include 'wi' and 'we'.

Peer reviews

Peer review 1

Hi Cythirixs,

I've assigned Japanese language as the article for my peer review.

I agree that the article Japanese language is logical and unbiased as you said.

I've also found that there are links for related topics on other Wikipedia pages so the coverage in the article Japanese language is not extensive. The article of Chinese language which I'm working on also has the similar structure and there are many links directing to other related topics elsewhere. I think it happens to most major languages. But still the article provides sufficient information for an overview of some important aspects, its background and development of the language.

The additions you've made on the changes to phonetics sections and dialect section are clear and unbiased. I've also checked that the links #9, 43, 44 work and the sources are reliable references.

Thank you and good luck to your exam next week.

Best,

Wongoc

Peer

Peer review 2

Hi Cythirixs!

Overall you did a great job! The contents added are neural and the links work fine. I saw in the revision history that you made many changes; however, I think you can move/copy all the things you added or changed into sandbox so it's easier to view what you've done, as there are many other editors working on the article as well. I see that you added "history" "kanji" under the writing system, so I assume you want to make changes on it, but there's no content beneath it. Maybe you can delete it if that's not something you are gonna revise.

Best,

Yanru Shen

Sources

• http://www.kanji.org/kanji/japanese/writing/wordform.htm (morpholody)
• http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/pitch-accent.html (pitch accent system)
• http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/users/furue/jp-pron.html (phonemics)