Japanese language
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Japanese is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national langu
A page from the Man'yōshū, the oldest anthology of classical Japanese poetry
A 12th-century emaki scroll of The Tale of Genji from the 11th century
Keiten Aijin
Ryukyuan languages
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The Ryukyuan languages, also Lewchewan or Luchuan, are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago. Along with the Japanese language and the Hachi
Japanese language
…primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu, Austronesian…
Traffic safety slogan signs in Kin, Okinawa, written in Japanese (center) and Okinawan (left and right)
Menshōri (めんしょーり), Kunigami (Okinoerabu)
Mensōre (めんそーれ), Okinawan
Nmyāchi (んみゃーち), Miyako