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Proto-Japonic

Definitions

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  • noun linguistics The hypothetical ancestral language of both modern Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages.
  • adjective linguistics Of or relating to the Proto-Japonic language.

Etymologies

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Proto- + Japonic; compare Proto-Indo-European, etc.

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Examples

  • Proto-Japonic had a four-vowel system */a i u ə/, and the last vowel is not preserved in Proto-Tungusic at all, so I don't see how the 2nd and 3rd vowels could be reconstructed with any more precision.

    How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage 2007

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Proto-Japanese
  2. Proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan

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