was a Japanese

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

who started his career lecturing at

Juntendo University is a private university in Japan. Its headquarters are on its campus in Bunkyo, Tokyo, for the School of Medicine and in Inzai, Chiba, for the School of Health and Sports Science. The university was established in 1838 for medical and in 1946 ...

, and went on to become full professor at

Kyoto Sangyo University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. History The university was established in 1965. The founder was Toshima Araki (, 1897–1978), and Hideo Iwakuro (岩畔豪雄 Iwakuro Hideo, 10 October 1897 – 22 November 1970), the Japanese spy ...

. One of the world’s foremost authorities on the

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, he later made important contributions to the mixed-language theory of the origins of Japanese.

Denis Sinor Denis Sinor (born Dénes Zsinór, April 17, 1916 in Kolozsvár (Austria-Hungary, now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) – January 12, 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Central Asian Studies at the Department of Ce ...

regarded him, together with Shirō Hattori, Samuel E. Martin, and Osada Natsuki as one of the four scholars who have done the most to throw light on the origins of the Japanese language.

Alexander Vovin Alexander (Sasha) Vladimirovich Vovin (russian: Александр Владимирович Вовин; 27 January 1961 – 8 April 2022) was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist, and director of studies at the School for Ad ...

, Osada Toshiki (長田俊樹) (eds.) ''Nihongo keitōron no genzai'', Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā, 2003

Career

Murayama spent much of the

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from 1942 to 1945 in

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, completing post-graduate studies at

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and Altai languages under the supervision of Nikolaus Poppe with particular attention to written materials in the

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Publications

* with Ōbayashi Taryō, ''Nihongo no kigen'', Kōbundō, Tokyo 1973 *''Nihongo no kenkyū-hōhō'', Kōbundō, Tokyo 1974 *''Nihongo no gogen'', Kōbundō, Tokyo 1974 *''Nihongo no genkai'', Kōbundō, Tokyo 1975 *''Nihongo keitō no tankyū'', Taishūkan Shoten, Tokyo 1978 *''Nihongo no tanjō'', Chikuma Shobō, Tokyo 1979 *with Kokubu Naoichi,''Genshi nihongo to minzoku bunka'', San'ichi Shobō,1979 *''Ryūkyūgo no himitsu'', Kōbundō, Tokyo 1981 *''Nihongo no kigen to gogen'', San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1981 *''Nihongo Tamirugo kigensetsu hihan'', San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1982 *''Ainugo no kigen'', San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1992

Career

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