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Introduction
General considerations
- Hypotheses of genetic affiliation
- Dialects
- Literary history
  - Grammatical structure
  - Phonology
  - Syntax
Linguistic characteristics of modern Japanese
- Phonology
  - The word-pitch accent system
  - Phonemes
- Grammatical structure
- Vocabulary
- Writing systems

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