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Japanese
New
Interconfessional
Bible
ISBN-10:
4820212281
ISBN-13:
9784820212287
Published:
December
2000
1955
Colloquial
Version.
(Kogo
Yaku) -
Contains
maps. (
5 1/2 x
7 1/4
in.)
New
Interconfessional
Translation
Bible
(新共同訳聖書
in
Japanese,
pronounced
"Shin
Kyōdō
Yaku
Seisho")
is the
most
recent
Japanese
translation
of the
Christian
Bible,
completed
in 1987,
and is
now the
most
widely
used
Japanese
Bible,
by both
Catholics
and
Protestants.
Japanese is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Japonic-Ryukyuan languages. Its relationships with other languages remain undemonstrated. It is an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and a person mentioned in conversation (regardless of his or her presence). The sound inventory of Japanese is relatively small, and it has a lexically distinct pitch-accent system.
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