Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century)....

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million...

spoken in the east of Japan, in the area traditionally called Togoku or Azuma. Eastern Old Japanese constitutes a branch of the Japanese subgroup of the Japonic...

(平安時代). The successor to Old Japanese (上代日本語), it is also known as Late Old Japanese. However, the term "Early Middle Japanese" is preferred, as it is...

The Japanese numerals are Numerals that are used in Japanese. In writing, they are the same as the Chinese numerals, and large numbers follow the Chinese...

Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family. It has been reconstructed...

Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in...

Japanese pronouns are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can...

files, see Wikipedia Media help. Japanese phonology is the system of sounds used in the pronunciation of the Japanese language. Unless otherwise noted...

this shift in consonants, see Old Japanese § Consonants, Early Middle Japanese § Consonants, and Late Middle Japanese § /h/ and /p/.) [v] There are three...