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May 31, 2024 · It is common, however, to divide the 1,200-year history into four or five periods; Old Japanese (up to the 8th century), Late Old Japanese (9th–11th century), Middle Japanese (12th–16th century), Early Modern Japanese (17th–18th century), and Modern Japanese (19th century to the present).
- Masayoshi Shibatani
The original language of Japan, or at least the original language of a certain population that was ancestral to a significant portion of the historical and present Japanese nation, was the so-called yamato kotoba (大和言葉 or infrequently 大和詞, i.e. "Yamato words"), which in scholarly contexts is sometimes referred to as wago (和語 ...
1. Japanese and Ryūkūan. These two Japanese languages are relatively closely related to four or five Ryūkyūan languages, which are spoken in the Ryūkyūan Archipelago, which consists of a chain of islands much smaller than the main Japanese islands, stretching roughly from Southern Kyūshū to Taiwan.
The history of the Japanese language and the origin of the dialects of Japan begin with the linguistic evolution.
Sep 6, 1999 · An Overview of the History of The Japanese Language. Theories have sprung up to explain the origin of the Japanese language until they have become as varied as the seasons.
Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record.
Oct 13, 1999 · HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE. Through painstaking research, we now have conclusive evidence for the genetic relationships of the major languages of the world. English, along with a host of languages spoken in Europe, Russia, and India, belong to the Indo-European family of languages.
