Langenesis

Japonic family

Old Japanese

700 CE – 800 CE Classical

Old Japanese (700 CE – 800 CE) is a classical Japonic language. It has 2 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Japonic → Old Japanese.

See Old Japanese on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
ojp
Glottocode
oldj1239

The language of the Nara period (710–794). Attested in the Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, and the Man'yōshū poetry anthology, written in man'yōgana (Chinese characters used phonetically).

Lineage

  1. Proto-Japonicc. 500 BCE – 0 CE
  2. Old Japanese700 CE – 800 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Japonic.

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