Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family. It has been reconstructed...

and significant progress has been made in reconstructing the proto-language, Proto-Japonic. The reconstruction implies a split between all dialects of...

classification of the Japonic languages and their external relations is unclear. Linguists traditionally consider the Japonic languages to belong to an independent...

Proto-Samic Proto-Turkic Proto-Mongolic Proto-Tungusic Proto-Koreanic Proto-Japonic Proto-Yeniseian Proto-Uralic Proto-Finno-Ugric [ru] Proto-Finnic Proto-Samic...

The Peninsular Japonic languages are now-extinct Japonic languages reflected in ancient placenames and glosses from central and southern parts of the...

proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages.: 73 ...

"dialects" as follows: Proto-Ainu Proto-Hokkaido–Kuril Hokkaido dialects Kuril dialects Proto-Sakhalin Sakhalin dialects The proto-language was reconstructed...

language, they make up the Japonic language family. Although Japanese is spoken in the Ryukyu Islands, the Ryukyu and Japanese languages are not mutually intelligible...

once. This may suggest that the proto-form of such word had a mid-vowel *o. Proto-Ryukyuan merged the Proto-Japonic diphthong *əi > *e, as in PJ *kəi...

from Korea, they likely brought over the Proto-Japonic language. Between the 2nd and 9th centuries, Japonic speakers inhabited the Ryukyu Islands. While...

that Japonic languages were spoken in central and southern parts of the peninsula. There have been many attempts to link Koreanic with other language families...

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...

of the Japonic languages (Insular Japonic), with the other varieties of Old Japanese, which all descend from proto-Japanese (separate from Proto-Ryukyuan...

other scholars have emphasized similarities with Japonic languages. Lee and Ramsey suggest that the language was intermediate between the two families. Other...

Robbeets (2017), Japonic language originated from Proto-"Transeurasian" language (the common ancestor of Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic, Japonic, and Koreanic)...

Proto-Palaungic Proto-Khmeric Proto-Aslian Proto-Munda Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese language [17] Proto-Tibeto-Burman [18] Proto-Loloish [19] Proto-Karenic...

Xianbei language, heavily influenced by the Proto-Turkic (later, the Lir-Turkic) language. The stages of historical Mongolic are: Pre-Proto-Mongolic...

proposed a new language family named East Asian, that includes all primary language families in the broader East Asia region except Japonic and Koreanic...

Ryukyuan language split from Proto-Japonic when its speakers migrated to the Ryukyu Islands. The Ryukyuan languages split from Proto-Japonic in the last...

Chukotko-Kamchatkan (Chukotian) Altaic Turkic Mongolic Tungusic Koreanic Japonic Gilyak (Nivkh) Ainu (?) (tentative inclusion) e) (6) Vasco-Caucasic (Vasco-Caucasian)...

Japanese is a daughter language of Old Japanese, which is a daughter language of Proto-Japonic. Coptic is a daughter language of Ancient Egyptian (through...

several linguists, Japonic or proto-Japonic was present on large parts of the southern Korean peninsula. These Peninsular Japonic languages, now extinct, were...

includes all other Turkic languages. Turkic languages show many similarities with the Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic languages. These similarities...

Yayoi culture are regarded as the spreaders of agriculture and the Japonic languages throughout the whole archipelago, and were characterized by both local...

(NINJAL), respectively, within the Japonic family as follows: Proto-Japonic Proto-Japanese Eastern Old Japanese Hachijō language Ōkagō & Mitsune dialects (Downhill...

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers...

likely the birthplace of Proto-Austronesian languages that spread across the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Proto-Japonic arrived in Japan from...

consider it a Koreanic languages, while others believe it is a Peninsular Japonic language. Alexander Vovin notes that the Japonic-origin toponyms of Samguk...

China or an older ancestral relation (Proto-East Asian). Vovin (2014) has proposed that the location of the Japonic Urheimat (linguistic homeland) is in...

(unity undisputed) Japonic (unity undisputed) Ainu (unity undisputed) Tyrsenian † (grouping of three closely related extinct languages; their affiliation...