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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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Proto-Japonic language (redirect from Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan_language)
Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family. It has been reconstructed...
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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...
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Japonic languages (redirect from Japanese (family))
Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in...
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classical Japanese language (文語, bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" (古文, kobun) and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese", is the...
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Japan has the highest proportion of elderly citizens of any country in the world. 2014 estimates showed that about 38% of the Japanese population was above...
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