Hitoshi Kodama
| Hitoshi Kodama | |
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| Born | 児玉仁士 [Kodama Hitoshi] 26 November 1931 Satsumasendai, Kagoshima |
| 8 February 2021 (aged 89)8 February 2021 (aged 89) | |
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Hitoshi Kodama (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist., 26 November 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a Japanese linguist and professor with interest in the West Frisian language of Friesland, Netherlands. He published Japansk-Frysk wurdboek, the Japanese-Frisian dictionary, in 2004.[1][2]
Kodama studied Middle English at the University of Cambridge in the 1950s, where he discovered the Anglo-Frisian family of languages, from which Old Frisian descended, is closely related to historical English, and that became West Frisian. Since the 1990s, he came every summer to Leeuwarden for almost ten years, where he worked on the dictionary at the Fryske Akademy. Kodama completed the lexicon in 2001, after his retirement. The dictionary was published in 2004, having 1,100 pages and approximately 22,500 Frisian words, along with their Japanese equivalents.[2]
Kodama died in early February 2021, aged 89, due to kidney failure.[2]
Works or publications
- Kodama, Hitoshi (2015). Japansk-Frysk wurdboek 日本語フリジア語辞典 [Japanese-Frisian dictionary] (in Frysk and 日本語). Tokyo: "Daigaku Shorin" 大学書林 [University Bookstore]. ISBN 978-4-475-00168-7. OCLC 956688578. Search this book on
References
- ↑ Shimizu, Makoto (9 April 2018). "Hitoshi Kodama, Japansk-Frysk wurdboek (jap. Nihongo-furijiago jiten). Tokyo (2015), Daigakusyorin, xiii＋682 bls. ISBN 9784475001687". Us Wurk (in Frysk). 66 (3–4): 163–168. eISSN 2772-8021. ISSN 0042-1235 – via Us Wurk.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Schrijver Fries-Japans woordenboek overleden" [Author of Frisian-Japanese dictionary died]. Leeuwarder Courant (in Nederlands). 21 February 2021. p. 3. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021. Unknown parameter
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