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Eastern Old Japanese
Eastern Old Japanese (abbreviated as EOJ; ) is a group of heterogenous varieties of Old Japanese, historically spoken in the east of Japan, in the area traditionally called ''Togoku'' or ''Azuma''. Classification Eastern Old Japanese constitutes a branch of the Japanese subgroup of the Japonic languages ( Insular Japonic), with the other varieties of Old Japanese, which all descend from proto-Japanese (separate from Proto-Ryukyuan, following the classification used by Kupchik (2011). Attestations Eastern Old Japanese is mainly attested through poems collected in several anthologies written during the 8th century: * ''Man'yōshū'' (万葉集), in the fourteenth and twentieth volumes, as well as some poems from volume sixteen ; * '' Kokin wakashū'' (古今和歌集), of which a poem is written in this dialect (written during the Heian period) ; * '' Fudoki'' (風土記) ; * ''Azuma (asobi) uta'' (東遊び歌) ; * '' Sakimori uta'', however, this one is written with the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japonic Languages
Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan () is a language family comprising Japanese language, Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is universally accepted by linguists, and significant progress has been made in reconstructing the proto-language, Proto-Japonic. The reconstruction implies a split between all dialects of Japanese and all Ryukyuan varieties, probably before the 7th century. The Hachijō language, spoken on the Izu Islands, is also included, but its position within the family is unclear. Most scholars believe that Japonic was brought to the Japanese archipelago from the Korean peninsula with the Yayoi culture during the 1st millennium BC. There is some fragmentary evidence suggesting that Japonic languages may still have been spoken in central and southern parts of the Korean peninsula (see Peninsular Japonic) in the early centuries AD. Possible genetic relationships with many other language familie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
