Weekly Hogen☺#27

Filed under:Language,Weekly Hogen☺2005 — posted by JAWjaw on December 28, 2005 @ 11:44 am

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – samurai (a specific type of traditional Japanese soldier)

Japanese – samurai (???? or ??)

Hogen – samuree?(????)

2 comments »

  1. how do you spell “Okinawa” in hogen?

    Comment by Thomas Ulrich — August 22, 2007 @ 8:35 pm

  2. As far as I have been informed to date, hogen is a spoken language without a written form of its own. If I remember my lessons correctly, I believe that even the written form of the Japanese language did not occur until somewhere around 525AD. As for the word Okinawa, that is a Japanese word, not of the idigenous island language of Hogen. Being a native Japanese word, it would follow the same linguistic rules as other native Japanese words and not be written in katakana, which is reserved for foreign-based words, but in Kanji or hiragana.

    Comment by JAWjaw — August 23, 2007 @ 1:16 pm

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