Islam in Burkina Faso and order and by stimulating trade. They also tended to regard Muslims as culturally and educationally more advanced than non-Muslim Africans, and appointed Muslim chiefs and clerks as administrators in non-Muslim areas. In Upper Volta at the end of the 19th century there were only some 30,000 Muslims, but by 1959 there were 800,000, approximately 20 percent of the population. In 1984, Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso. After a succession of military coups, a constitutional republic was established in 1991. In Burkina Faso the Arabist and Islamist movement is viewed a counter-culture to the European style of modernity, and
Synonomy in Japanese compares native Japanese words, inherited from Old Japanese – "yamato kotoba" – with words borrowed from Chinese – "kango" – and loanwords from other languages – "gairaigo". As Japan is a very mountainous country, significant differences between the dialects of Japanese exist even in their native vocabulary. Synonomy in Japanese Synonymy in Japanese refers to two or more words or expressions in Japanese that may have the same meaning. There are many synonyms in Japanese because the Japanese language draws from several different languages for loanwords, such as Chinese and English, as well as its own native words. In Japanese,