HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Keywords:
language history, Japanese writing, book speech, oral speech, Japanese language.Abstract
Japanese is the main language of the Japanese language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has about 123 million speakers and is adopted as the national language, mainly in Japan.
Recent decades of research show that the Japanese language belongs to the Altaic language family. This language is widely spoken mainly in Japan, as well as in several countries of Asia, America and Europe (USA, Canada, Brazil, etc.), as well as in Australia. Japanese is mainly divided into northern, eastern, western and southern dialect groups.
A few Japanese words are recorded in Chinese sources from the 3rd century, and Japanese texts begin to appear by the 8th century.
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