Talk:Yamataikoku

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[edit] Reply to Bendono

Bendono, thanks for your comment on my Talk page about this edit. I'll answer here, if it's OK with you. I moved Miyake's linguistic note on pronunciation from the lead paragraph (where it seems too technical) to the "Pronunciation" section (where details of other OC and OP reconstructions are discussed). For the sake of consistency, I changed the "ref" tag format for a single "Notes" to the Harvard referencing format this article uses for all the other citations under "References". HTML complexities of these "ref" tags often cause problems such as "1. ^ Marc Hideo (2003:41)". I agree with you that the lead needs another sentence about Yamatai and Yamato. How about something like this? "The linguistically and historically controversial term Yamatai transcribes an early form of Old Japanese Yamato₂ corresponding to Modern Japanese Yamato (大和 "Japan")." Do you think some of the Yamato information and Wikilinks from the first paragraph in "History" should go into the lead? Thanks again. Keahapana 01:45, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. More than for phonological reasons, my intention with the reference was to merely say that Yamatai is (linguistically) nothing more than a old form of the word that eventually became Yamato. It goes without saying, though, that the concept of what makes up Yamato (ie, Japan) has changed a great deal as national centers and boarders changed and expanded. I would like to say something like this in the lead, but do not have a better resource. As you wrote, the linguistic details are more appropriate elsewhere, which I am satisfied with. Bendono (talk) 05:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)