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29 Οκτ 2024 · A single most important development in the history of Japanese is the acquisition of the nativized writing systems that took place between the 8th and the 10th centuries. The Japanese vocabulary has been constantly enriched by loanwords —from Chinese in earlier times and from European languages in more recent history.
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language.
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.
Japanese Language. The language consists of a combination of Chinese characters “kanji” (漢字) and 2 phonetically syllabic scripts “hiragana” (ひらがな) and “katakana” (カタカナ or 片仮名). The hiragana and katakana are indicated with common name Kana. Latinka (romaji) is used in today’s Japanese too.
3 Αυγ 2020 · Modern Japanese. Before the Edo period, the dialect spoken in the Kansai region used to be standard Japanese. During the Edo period, the town Edo that is today called Tokyo developed into the largest city in Japan and the Edo-area dialect became the standard Japanese.
Whether you’ve spent some time learning Japanese already or you’re just getting started on your language journey, it can be fun—and helpful—to discover Japanese language history. The Japanese language that we know and love today has gone through quite a lengthy period of growth.
A History of the Japanese Language. Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as refl ected by the written sources and historical record.
