Japanese (language)

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East Asian language spoken primarily in Japan. Held by many modern scholars to be a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) family of languages, while others maintain that it is a language isolate.
Japanese
Accepted term: 01-Dec-2025