外国語

See also: 外国语 and 外國語

Japanese

Kanji in this term
外	国	語
がい Grade: 2	こく Grade: 2	ご Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

外国 (がいこく, gaikoku, "foreign country") + 語 (ご, go, "language, -ese").

Pronunciation

On’yomi
- (Tokyo) がいこくご [gàíkókúgó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [ɡa̠iko̞kɯ̟ᵝɡo̞]

Noun

外国語 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 外國語, hiragana がいこくご, rōmaji gaikokugo)

(linguistics) a foreign language
外国語 (がいこくご)を知 (し)らない者 (もの)は自 (じ)分 (ぶん)自 (じ)身 (しん)の言 (げん)語 (ご)について何 (なに)も知 (し)らない。
Gaikokugo o shiranai mono wa jibun jishin no gengo ni tsuite nani mo shiranai.
Those who do not know foreign languages know nothing about their own language.

Antonyms

母国語 (ぼこくご) (bokokugo)

References

↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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