Chinese and Japanese History

Chinese

Japanese

Japanese and Chinese Language History

History

Origin

1250 BC

1185

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Japonic Family

Subgroup

Not Available

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Standard Chinese

Japanese

Language Position

Signed Forms

Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))

Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual

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Early forms of Chinese and Japanese

The Early forms of Chinese and Japanese explains the evolution of Chinese and Japanese languages which is under Chinese and Japanese history. The early forms give us the early stages of the language. By studying Chinese and Japanese history we will understand how the Chinese and Japanese languages were evolved and modified according to time.

Early forms of Chinese: No early forms.
Early forms of Japanese: Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese.
Standard forms of Chinese: Standard Chinese.
Standard forms of Japanese: Japanese.
Signed forms of Chinese: Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed forms of Japanese: Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))

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Chinese and Japanese Language Family

In Chinese and Japanese history, you will get to know about Chinese and Japanese language family. Go through all languages which belong to Afro-Asiatic Languages and Niger-Congo Languages and explore more about them. A language family is defined as group of languages that are derived from common ancestors. Chinese is a part of Sino-Tibetan Family while Japanese is a part of Japonic Family. The subgroup and branch of Chinese is Not Available and Not Available resp. The subgroup and branch of Japanese is Not Available and Not Available resp. Language families are subdivided into smaller units. Scripts used by these languages also depend upon their family. Check out the scripts used in Chinese and Japanese language on Chinese vs Japanese alphabets. You can also find which is the most widely spoken language in the world on Most Spoken Languages.

Chinese vs Japanese Language Rank

It’s really interesting to find out Chinese vs Japanese language rank. Chinese and Japanese history gives you Chinese and Japanese language rank. The Chinese language rank is 1. And Japanese language rank is 8. The language which is at the higher position has maximum number of native speakers. If you want to know the number of native speakers then go to Chinese vs Japanese.