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.

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	Early Middle Japanese → Late Middle Japanese → Modern Japanese → Old Japanese →
hasLanguage	Amami language → Japanese language → Kunigami language → Miyako language → Northern Ryukyuan languages → Okinawan language → Shuri–Naha Okinawan → Southern Ryukyuan languages → Yaeyama language → Yonaguni language →
hasMorphologicalFeature	extensive verbal inflection →
hasPart	Japanese language → Ryukyuan languages →
hasPhonologicalFeature	pitch accent →
hasSubfamily	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 hypothesis (disputed) → Koreanic languages (hypothetical) →
region	Japanese archipelago → Ryukyu Islands →
spokenIn	East Asia → Japan → Ryukyu Islands →
subclassOf	East Asian languages →
typology	agglutinative language →
writingInfluenceFrom	Chinese characters →
writingSystem	Japanese writing system → Kana → Kanji → Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Classical Japanese → Hokkaido dialect of Japanese → Japanese → Okinawan Japanese → Ryukyuan languages →	languageFamily
East Asia →	hasLanguageFamily
Altaic languages (proposed) →	hasSubgroup
Ryukyuan people →	languageFamilyBranchOf
Ryukyuan languages →	subclassOf