Old Japanese

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Old Japanese is the earliest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in texts from roughly the 8th century and foundational to the later development of Japanese and related languages.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Old Japanese canonical 11
Early Middle Japanese 1
Old Japanese language 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Old Japanese language
historical language
stage of the Japanese language
attestedInCentury 8th century
attestedInWork Fudoki
Kojiki
Man'yōshū
Nihon Shoki
era Nara period
follows Proto-Japonic language
surface form: Proto-Japanese
hasFeature absence of kana syllabaries
distinct verbal conjugation classes
distinction between /ko₁/ and /ko₂/ type syllables
limited use of grammatical particles compared to later Japanese
richer vowel system than later Japanese
use of bound auxiliary verbs
use of syllabic spelling with Chinese characters
hasGrammar SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
postpositional particles
hasLexicon early Sino-Japanese loanwords
native Yamato vocabulary
hasPhonology distinction between /mo₁/ and /mo₂/ type syllables
eight-vowel system hypothesis
hasRole basis for study of early Japanese culture
foundation for reconstruction of Proto-Japanese
hasScriptOrigin adaptation of Chinese writing to Japanese
hasStatus earliest attested form of Japanese
influenced Classical Japanese
Early Middle Japanese
Japanese
surface form: Modern Japanese
ISO639-3Code ojp
languageFamily Japonic languages
partOf history of the Japanese language
precedes Early Middle Japanese
studiedInField Japanese philology
comparative Japonic linguistics
historical linguistics
timePeriodEnd late 8th century
timePeriodStart early 8th century
usedBy House of Yamato
surface form: Yamato court
usedFor imperial chronicles
official records
poetry
usedIn Japan
writingSystem Classical Chinese characters
Man'yōgana

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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ryukyuan languages hasAncestor Old Japanese
Yamato period hasLanguage Old Japanese
Yamato polity language Old Japanese
Classical Japanese follows Old Japanese
Late Middle Japanese follows Old Japanese
this entity surface form: Early Middle Japanese
Late Middle Japanese developedFrom Old Japanese
Proto-Japonic language reconstructedFrom Old Japanese
this entity surface form: Old Japanese language
Okinawan language hasAncestor Old Japanese
Empress Genmei nativeLanguage Old Japanese
Yamato clan hasLanguage Old Japanese
Ōkimi etymologyLanguage Old Japanese
Yamato area languageAssociated Old Japanese