• The classification of the Japonic languages and their external relations is unclear. Linguists traditionally consider the Japonic languages to belong...
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    suggesting that Japonic languages may still have been spoken in central and southern parts of the Korean peninsula (see Peninsular Japonic) in the early centuries...
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    language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages.: 73  The...
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    The Peninsular Japonic languages are now-extinct Japonic languages reflected in ancient placenames and glosses from central and southern parts of the...
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    Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese...
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    The geographically proximate languages of Japanese (part of the Japonic languages) and Korean (part of the Koreanic languages) share considerable similarity...
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  • various classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages (see the articles for the respective language families). The five established major language families...
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    assume a borrowed term.[verification needed] (See Classification of the Japonic languages or Comparison of Japanese and Korean for further details on a possible...
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    includes all other Turkic languages. Turkic languages show many similarities with the Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic languages. These similarities...
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    all. The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa Prefecture and the southern islands of Kagoshima Prefecture form a separate branch of the Japonic family, and are...
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