Japanese and Chinese History

Japanese

Chinese

Chinese and Japanese Language History

History

Origin

1185

1250 BC

Language Family

Japonic Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Not Available

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

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

No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese

Standard Chinese

Language Position

Signed Forms

Signed Japanese

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

Scope

Individual

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Early forms of Japanese and Chinese

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

Early forms of Japanese: Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese.
Early forms of Chinese: No early forms.
Standard forms of Japanese: Japanese.
Standard forms of Chinese: Standard Chinese.
Signed forms of Japanese: Signed Japanese
Signed forms of Chinese: Signed Japanese

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Japanese and Chinese Language Family

In Japanese and Chinese history, you will get to know about Japanese and Chinese 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. Japanese is a part of Japonic Family while Chinese is a part of Sino-Tibetan Family. The subgroup and branch of Japanese is Not Available and Not Available resp. The subgroup and branch of Chinese 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 Japanese and Chinese language on Japanese vs Chinese alphabets. You can also find which is the most widely spoken language in the world on Most Spoken Languages.

Japanese vs Chinese Language Rank

It’s really interesting to find out Japanese vs Chinese language rank. Japanese and Chinese history gives you Japanese and Chinese language rank. The Japanese language rank is 8. And Chinese language rank is 1. 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 Japanese vs Chinese.