Japonic family
Japanese
1600 CE – today Living
Japanese (1600 CE – today) is a living Japonic language. Lineage: Proto-Japonic → Old Japanese → Middle Japanese → Japanese.
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- 125M (125,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- jpn
- Glottocode
- nucl1643
Covers Early Modern Japanese (Edo, 1600–1868) and Modern Japanese (Meiji onwards), unified by the gembun-itchi movement of the late 19th c. that brought the literary register closer to colloquial Tokyo speech.
Lineage
- Proto-Japonicc. 500 BCE – 0 CE
- Old Japanese700 CE – 800 CE
- Middle Japanese800 CE – 1600 CE
- Japanese1600 CE – today