Shinkichi Hashimoto
{{short description|Japanese linguist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1882|12|24}}
| birth_place = Fukui City, Japan
| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|1|30|1882|12|24}}
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{{nihongo|Shinkichi Hashimoto|橋本 進吉|Hashimoto Shinkichi|December 24, 1882 – January 30, 1945}} was a Japanese linguist, born in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
Biography
Hashimoto is especially noted for the discovery of Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, which makes it clear that Old Japanese made more syllabic distinctions than later periods of the language. This discovery led him to hypothesize that Old Japanese had eight vowels, while modern Japanese has only five. His systematic description of the Japanese grammar also laid the foundations of language education for Japanese children.{{cite book|title=Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology|first=Haruo|last=Kubozono|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|date=2015|page=369|isbn=9781614511984}}
See also
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Category:People from Tsuruga, Fukui
Category:University of Tokyo alumni
Category:20th-century Japanese linguists
Category:Linguists of Japanese
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