11-21-2015, 03:54 PM
Thanks for this interesting thread. Might I add a tangential topic?
After World War II there was a small, brief attempt to change the national language of Japan from Japanese to French.
"Another such broker was Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), who in 1946 proposed that French be adopted as the national language of Japan."
This link is to page 107 of "The Making of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity" by Patrick Heinrich.
http://tinyurl.com/pz75bxn
The full URL is below:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=4wrPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA107&dq=%22The+Most+beautiful+language+in+the+world%22+shiga&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-jOq47KHJAhUP02MKHQ-8BOMQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Most%20beautiful%20language%20in%20the%20world%22%20shiga&f=false
After World War II there was a small, brief attempt to change the national language of Japan from Japanese to French.
"Another such broker was Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), who in 1946 proposed that French be adopted as the national language of Japan."
This link is to page 107 of "The Making of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity" by Patrick Heinrich.
http://tinyurl.com/pz75bxn
The full URL is below:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=4wrPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA107&dq=%22The+Most+beautiful+language+in+the+world%22+shiga&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-jOq47KHJAhUP02MKHQ-8BOMQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Most%20beautiful%20language%20in%20the%20world%22%20shiga&f=false