Langenesis

Japonic family

Proto-Ryukyuan

c. 800 CE – 1200 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Ryukyuan (c. 800 CE – 1200 CE) is a reconstructed Japonic language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Japonic → Proto-Ryukyuan.

See Proto-Ryukyuan on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Ryukyuan languages, likely brought south from Kyushu around the 10th–12th c. Split from mainland Japonic before Old Japanese is contested.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Japonicc. 500 BCE – 0 CE
  2. Proto-Ryukyuanc. 800 CE – 1200 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Japonic.

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