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| Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects (FPJD) and New Linguistic Atlas of Japan (NLJ) This database release the dialectological distribution data of 554 places researched by Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects between 2010 and 2015. Show More |
| Film Script Catalogue of NINJAL Research Materials Room A catalogue of the film scripts collected and stored by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics for spoken language research. Show More |
| FishWatchr: Observation Support System for Educational Activities In educational activities such as discussion exercises and role-plays, students often observe and evaluate their activities each other. FishWatchr allows students to make annotations on real-time activities and video-recorded ones, and supports students' group reflection by using the annotation results. Show More |
| Full Text Database of Kokugogaku The full text of Kokugogaku (the former journal of the Society for Japanese Linguistics) can be searched for online. Show More |
| Glossed Audio Corpus of Ainu Folklore This is the first fully glossed and annotated digital collection of Ainu folktales with translations into Japanese and English. It contains 10 stories (8 uepeker ‘prosaic folktales’ and 2 kamuy yukar ‘divine epics’) narrated by Mrs. Kimi Kimura (1900-1988, born in Penakori Village, upper district of the Saru River) with a total recording time of about 3 hours. Show More |
| Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects (PDF) The ‘Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects’ is a linguistic map (dialect map) which shows an overview of geographical distribution of grammatical phenomena across Japan. Images of maps contained in the ‘Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects’ (a total of 350) are available. Show More |
| Handbook of Basic Japanese Verbs This is an online handbook for teachers (native as well as non-native) and learners of the Japanese language, designed for deepening systematic understanding of polysemous basic Japanese verbs. Show More |
| Headline Database of Language-Related Newspaper Articles (download) The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics collected newspapers articles on language from 1949 to September 2009 to create a ‘newspaper clip collection’. The database contains information on the publication data, the newspaper title, and the headlines of the newspaper articles collected in the ‘newspaper clip collection’. Show More |
| Hentaigana Database Provides images and information of "hentaigana," which are variants of hiragana, selected as candidates for international character encoding standards (ISO/IEC 10646, Unicode). The NINJAL hentaigana font is also provided. Show More |
| Hideo Teramura: Collected Papers on Adnominal Modification This site presents English translations of several of the research contributions of the late Professor Hideo Teramura (1928-1990), who contributed greatly to the development of the fundamentals of Japanese language studies and Japanese language education through the 1970s and 1980s. Show More |
| Himawari: Full-Text Search System for Linguistic Resources “Himawari” is a full-text search system for linguistic resources such as corpora, databases of examples and lexicons. This system can search linguistic resources described in XML, and show the context of a search key and annotated information in the linguistic resources (e.g. bibliographic information). Show More |
| Images and Transcription of Isoho monogatari in the British Library collection This site provides a viewer that displays the Amakusa edition’s images (‘Esopo no fabulas’ [Isoho monogatari]) and its transliterated texts side-by-side. Show More |
| Images of the Amakusa edition of Heike monogatari, Isoho monogatari and Kinkushū in the British Library collection This database provides images of the Amakusa edition of Heike monogatari, Isoho monogatari, Kinkushū, Kotoba no yawarage and Japanese-Portuguese vocabulary in the British Library collection (BL, Shelfmark: Or.59.aa.1). All images are in the public domain. Show More |
| Images of the Tale of Genji Manuscript Book at the Library of Congress This database provides images of the Tale of Genji manuscript at the Library of Congress (LC, LC Control No.: 2008427768), using a viewer that displays images of original texts and transliterated texts side-by-side. Kiritsubo, Suma and Kashiwagi are accessible. Show More |
| Indexical Database of the Japanese Language Studies Provides data from the "General Index to Japanese Language Studies," a joint project by the Society for the Study of Japanese Language and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Show More |
| International Census on Attitudes Toward Japanese Response data from the International Census on Attitudes Toward Japanese, an international comparative survey conducted from January 1997 through August 1998 that asked 32,471 respondents in 28 different countries and regions in the world, including Japan, about their attitudes towards Japanese, their first languages, and English. Show More |
| International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS) In spring of 2020, NINJAL published the International corpus of Japanese as a second language （I-JAS）collected from 1000 learners, 850 from 12 different native languages who were studying Japanese overseas and 150 from those studying in Japan, either in a classroom or natural environment. The data of 50 Japanese native speakers is also added. It contains oral task data (story-telling, role-play, interview and picture-description), written data (story--telling, role-play, interview and picture-description), written data (story-writing, essay and email messages), which was optional, and oral sound data. The result of the Japanese proficiency test and learners' information are also published. Show More |
| Japanese Dialect Database The Japanese Dialect Database is a database that contains text files of dialect speech (transcripts and translations in standard Japanese) and audio files. (A series of books with CD-ROM, 20 volumes in total, compiled by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and published by Kokushokankokai from 2002 to 2008.) Show More |
| Japanese Learners' Contrastive Short Essay Database The Japanese Learners' Contrastive Short Essay Database contains Japanese essays written by learners of Japanese, translations of the essays by the authors themselves, and corrections by Japanese teachers and other correctors. Show More |
| Japanese Learners' Contrastive Speech Production Database The Japanese Learners' Contrastive Speech Production Database contains transcripts of Japanese speeches by learners of Japanese (who are native speakers of Chinese, Korean, and Thai), their speeches in their first languages that mean roughly the same, and Japanese speeches by Japanese native speakers on the same theme. Show More |
| Japanese Onomatopoeia Reference for Learners Japanese onomatopoeia reference with cartoons and illustrations for Japanese language learners. Show More |
| Japanese Word History and Frequency This tool allows users to search for statistical information from the corpus, old dictionaries, language maps, language articles, and other materials related to the history of the Japanese language at one time. Show More |
| Kunten Database This is the Database of gloss information (Kunten information) on Shangshu (printed in the late 16th century) at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Show More |
| Language Museum This website introduces a variety of languages spoken in Japan so that you can see, listen, and learn them. Some languages might sound totally different from Tokyo Japanese, others might be familiar to you. Click a tag that interests you and read the articles. You might want to visit the place or speak the language spoken there. Show More |
| Language Processing Data Source Provides "Language Processing Data Source" (compiled by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics from 1985 to 2001). Show More |
| Linguistic Atlas of Japan (PDF) The ‘Linguistic Atlas of Japan’ (dialect atlas) is one of the basic research materials of dialectology, which shows geographical distributions of words and pronunciations of Japanese dialects. Digital images of maps contained in the ‘Linguistic Atlas of Japan’ (a total of 300 images) are available in PDF format. Show More |
| Linguistic Survey of Two Million Characters in Contemporary Magazines (1994) These frequency lists are part of the outcomes of ‘A Survey of Vocabulary in Contemporary Magazines (1994)’ carried out at the National Institute for Japanese Language from 2001 to 2005. Show More |
| Magazine Catalogue of NINJAL Research Materials Room A catalogue of the original copies of magazines collected and stored by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics for vocabulary research and other purposes. Show More |
| Nagoya University Conversation Corpus ‘Nagoya University Conversation Corpus’ (NUCC) is composed of transcriptions of 129 uncontrolled, natural conversations between or among friends, family members or colleagues. Show More |
| Nihongo Booklet (Annual Report of Japanese Language Trends) The Nihongo Booklet is an annual report that summarizes each year's trends about Japanese based on books, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and other materials. The 2007 version, 2006 version, 2005 version, 2004 version and revised 2002 version are available. Show More |
| NINJAL Hentaigana Database This site provides a database and a viewer that indexes glyph images of Hentaigana by reading, base form, and Unicode ID.It has functions such as mutual links with source images and options to display the source image and the transliterated text side by side. Show More |
| NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ) NPCMJ is a syntactically and semantically annotated corpus of both written and spoken Modern Japanese. There are interfaces available for anyone to search, browse, and download trees easily. Show More |
| NINJAL Research Library OPAC This database allows the user to search the catalogue and location information of about 150,000 books and about 5,800 journals that the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics’ research library has. It contains catalogues and location information of rare books, audio-visual materials, and specialist collections. Show More |
| NINJAL Web Japanese Corpus 20 billion-word Web text corpus by crawling 100 million pages every three months. The corpus was automatically annotated morphological information and dependency structures. Show More |
| NINJAL-LWP for BCCWJ (NLB) NINJAL-LWP for BCCWJ (NLB) is an online search tool for the BCCWJ which uses the lexical profiling technique. It has been jointly developed by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) and Lago Gengo Kenkyusho. Show More |
| NPCMJ Child Language Development Timeline The NPCMJ Child Language Development Timeline (NPCMJ-CLDT) provides an interactive timeline mediated interface to the Soyogo Parsed Corpus (a parsed corpus of child language Japanese). This interface makes morpho-syntactic analysis of child language accessible to search and exploration through, most notably, the lens of an age range filter. Here is your chance to discover patterns of morpho-syntactic development of children acquiring Japanese with an interface that eases zooming in on very specific information on individual acquisition behaviour. Show More |
| Okinawa-go (Ryukyu Dialect) Dictionary Database Electric data of Okinawago Jiten (Okinawa Language Dictionary), published 1963 and revised 2001. Show More |
| Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese “The Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese” is a lemmatized, parsed and comprehensively annotated digital corpus of all texts in Japanese from the Old Japanese period. In its present version, the ONCOJ contains the full corpus of Old Japanese poetic texts, including the Man'yōshū. Show More |
| Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan This site provides the English translated papers which are selected by members of NINJAL as pioneering linguistic works in Japan with an established reputation. Show More |
| Program Library MCL (Method in Computational Linguistics) for Japanese Word Count An integrated processing program and program library MCL for Japanese language research developed by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Show More |
| Rendaku Database A database of rendaku compounds with a noun + verb and a database of rendaku compounds recorded in literature from the Nara period. Show More |
| Research Materials on NINJAL This is a database of research materials (e.g., index cards, audio recordings, etc.) collected or created by NINJAL research projects in the past 70 years. Show More |
| Research on the World's Language Research Institutes Online version of the research results by language research institutes around the world that were published by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in CD-ROM form in 2001. (In English) Show More |
| Researches for the Regional Distribution of the Language Use and Consciousness in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area of Japan Research results concerning the language use and consciousness of university students in the Tokyo metropolitan area are shown on linguistic maps. Show More |
| Shonagon Shonagon is a web concordancer on which even beginners of corpus linguistics can search the string of BCCWJ. Show More |
| Spontaneous Conversational Data for Japanese Language Learners Provides data of conversations with learners of Japanese that was collected using the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) method (collected in 2007 and contains 339 transcripts and 215 pieces of audio data). Show More |
| Spontaneous Conversational Data for Japanese Language Learners: Longitudinal Survey Results Provides transcripts of conversations conducted over five years with learners of Japanese in communities with a large population of non-Japanese residents, who are either living in concentrated clusters or spread out throughout (conversations between the learners of Japanese and OPI testers). (Recorded from 2007 to 2012.) Show More |
| Text Data of “Goi kenkyu bunken gobetsu mokuroku” Provides the full text data of “Goi Kenkyu Bunken Gobetsu Mokuroku" (compiled by Kiyoji Sato), contained in "Koza Nihongo no Goi Bekkan" (published in 1983 by Meiji Shoin). Show More |
| Text Data Sets for Research on the History of Japanese This website provides the data sets (txt, xml, etc.) for research on the history of Japanese. Show More |
| The Databese of the Okazaki Survey of Honorifics This database is the result of the honorifics survey in Okazaki City of Aichi Prefecture which was headed by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. The OSH (Okazaki Survey of Honorifics) was conducted in the years 1953, 1972, and 2008, and shows real-time changes over a span of 55 years following the war. Show More |
