Early Modern Japanese
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Early Modern Japanese (近世日本語, kinsei nihongo) was the stage of the Japanese language after Middle Japanese and before Modern Japanese.[1] It is a period of transition that shed many of the characteristics that Middle Japanese had retained during the language's development from Old Japanese, thus becoming intelligible to modern Japanese.
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Early Modern Japanese | |
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近世日本語 | |
Region | Japan |
Era | Evolved into Modern Japanese in the mid-19th century |
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Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji | |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
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The period spanned roughly 250 years and extended from the 17th century to the first half of the 19th century. Politically, it generally corresponded to the Edo period.