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). It became Early Middle Japanese in the succeeding Heian period , but the precise …

The classical Japanese language (文語, bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" (古文, kobun) and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese", is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989).

2025年1月29日 · Japanese language, a language isolate (i.e., a language unrelated to any other language) and one of the world’s major languages, with more than 127 million speakers in the early 21st century.

Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai nihongo) is the oldest known form of the Japanese language. It is difficult to give a precise date when Old Japanese started. The date when the Old Japanese period is said to have finished is 794.

In Japanese language: Literary history …language shed most of its Old Japanese characteristics and acquired those of the modern language. It is common, however, to divide the 1,200-year history into four or five periods; Old Japanese (up to the 8th century), Late Old Japanese (9th–11th century), Middle Japanese (12th–16th century), Early ...

Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the language, Old Japanese (approximately the eighth century AD), and then tracing the changes which occurred through the Early Middle Japanese (800–1200), Late Middle Japanese (1200–1600) and the Modern Japanese (1600 onwards) periods, a complete internal history of the language is ex...

Late Old Japanese (中古日本語) is an old form of the Japanese language. It was used in the time known as the Heian Period, between 794 and 1185. The form of Japanese that was used before that is called Old Japanese. Old Japanese was the first form of the Japanese language. The script (the way it was written) came from the Chinese script.

Old Japanese contained up to 8 vowels, which means more than Modern Japanese 5 vowels! Supposedly, this vowel system had been reduced before the kana creation in the early 9th century. The 8-vowel system evokes a system of the Uralic and Altaic language families.

2024年12月25日 · The Japanese language, a rich and complex system of communication, has evolved significantly over centuries. Its journey from ancient times to the modern era tells a story of cultural adaptation, influence, and innovation.

1999年9月6日 · In this paper I will explore the major theories attempting to connect Japanese to other known languages, after first presenting some of the changes from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese, including both the written and spoken forms.