Japonic languages

E24960
language family language group

The Japonic languages are a small language family that includes Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken primarily in Japan and the Ryukyu Islands of East Asia.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Japonic languages canonical 20
Japonic 1
Japonic language 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family ⓘ
language group ⓘ
arealRelation in contact with Ainu language ⓘ
in contact with Chinese languages ⓘ
in contact with Koreanic languages ⓘ
basicWordOrder SOV ⓘ
classificationStatus genetic affiliation uncertain ⓘ
glottologCode japo1237 ⓘ
hasCaseMarking particle-based case marking ⓘ
hasHistoricalStage Classical Japanese ⓘ
surface form: Early Middle Japanese

Late Middle Japanese ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ
surface form: Modern Japanese

Japanese ⓘ
surface form: Old Japanese
hasLanguage Amami language ⓘ
Japanese language ⓘ
Amami language ⓘ
surface form: Kunigami language

Miyako language ⓘ
Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
surface form: Northern Ryukyuan languages

Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
surface form: Okinawan language

Okinawan Japanese ⓘ
surface form: Shuri–Naha Okinawan

Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
surface form: Southern Ryukyuan languages

Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
surface form: Yaeyama language

Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
surface form: Yonaguni language
hasMorphologicalFeature extensive verbal inflection ⓘ
hasPart Japanese language ⓘ
Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature pitch accent ⓘ
hasSubfamily Japanese ⓘ
surface form: Japanese language

Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature left-branching syntax ⓘ
use of postpositions ⓘ
ISOFamilyCode jpx ⓘ
languageStatus includes endangered languages ⓘ
lexicalInfluenceFrom Classical Chinese ⓘ
Sino-Japanese vocabulary ⓘ
macroArea Eurasia ⓘ
majorLanguage Japanese language ⓘ
possibleRelationTo Altaic languages (proposed) ⓘ
surface form: Altaic hypothesis (disputed)

Koreanic languages (hypothetical) ⓘ
region Japanese archipelago ⓘ
Ryukyu Islands ⓘ
spokenIn East Asia ⓘ
Japan ⓘ
Ryukyu Islands ⓘ
subclassOf East Asian languages ⓘ
typology agglutinative language ⓘ
writingInfluenceFrom Kanji ⓘ
surface form: Chinese characters
writingSystem Japanese writing system ⓘ
Hiragana ⓘ
surface form: Kana

Kanji ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (23)

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

East Asia → hasLanguageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Japanese → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Altaic languages (proposed) → hasSubgroup → Japonic languages ⓘ
Ryukyuan people → languageFamilyBranchOf → Japonic languages ⓘ
Ryukyuan languages → subclassOf → Japonic languages ⓘ
Ryukyuan languages → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Okinawan Japanese → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Classical Japanese → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Hokkaido dialect of Japanese → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Yaeyama language → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Amami language → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Late Middle Japanese → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Yamato people → associatedLanguageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Old Japanese → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Proto-Japonic language → partOf → Japonic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Japonic language family
Okinawan language → family → Japonic languages ⓘ
Western Japanese dialects → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Southern Ryukyuan languages → partOf → Japonic languages ⓘ
Kunigami → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Yonaguni → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Miyakoan → subclassOf → Japonic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Japonic language
Miyakoan → languageFamily → Japonic languages ⓘ
Ririgaku → languageFamilyOfOriginalLanguage → Japonic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Japonic