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  1. 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 ...

    • Languages of Japan

      Languages of Japan. The most widely spoken language in Japan...

    • Old Japanese

      Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested...

    • Classical Japanese

      The classical Japanese language ( 文語 bungo, "literary...

  2. 3 days ago · 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
  3. The problem of the origins of the Japanese language is a vexing one, and it was a subject of a long debate between many competing hypotheses starting roughly in the mid- 19th century, although one of these hypotheses, namely the Japanese-Korean hypothesis (which is still very influential today), was first proposed much earlier at the end of 18th...

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