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== Japanese and Korean ==

{{See also|Japanese particles|Korean particles}}

The term ''particle'' is often used in descriptions of [[Japanese language|Japanese]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://japanese.about.com/blparticles.htm |title=All About the Japanese Particles Wa and Ga |access-date=2009-10-29 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303200426/http://japanese.about.com/blparticles.htm |archive-date=2009-03-03 }} List of Japanese particles</ref> and [[Korean language|Korean]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/portnerp/nsfsite/KoreanParticlesMiokPak.pdf |title=Paul H. Portner – Paul Portner's academic homepage |access-date=2008-04-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306201122/http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/portnerp/nsfsite/KoreanParticlesMiokPak.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-06 }} List of Korean particles</ref> where they are used to mark [[noun]]s according to their [[grammatical case]] or [[thematic relation]] in a sentence or clause.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://conf.ling.cornell.edu/japanese_historical_linguistics/3.3%20Particles.pdf|title=conf.ling.cornell.edu|website=cornell.edu|access-date=7 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724192923/http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/japanese_historical_linguistics/3.3%20Particles.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2010}}</ref> Linguistic analyses describe them as [[suffix]]es, [[clitic]]s, or [[Preposition and postposition|postposition]]s. There are sentence-tagging particles such as Japanese question markers.

== Polynesian languages ==