Former Japanese
The former Japanese is the Japanese such as it was spoken between the 4th century and the 12th century (fine of the time Heian in 1185). It is divided into two periods: high Japanese (上代日本語, jōdai nihongo , 上 meaning the idea of anteriority) and average Japanese (中古日本語, chūko nihongo , 中 referring to the idea of median time).
High Japanese
High Japanese, older form known of this language, is located between IVe century (first transcriptions of Japanese in characters Chinese. One makes it lead traditionally into 794, beginning of the period Heian.
88 syllables as high Japanese were distinguished:
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Former Japanese
Former Japanese is much more known than high Japanese. He corresponds to the period Heian.
High Japanese was written while adapting and by copying the Idéogramme S Chinese. During the Heian period, two new typestyles appeared: the Hiragana and Katakana . They made it possible to simplify the writing of Japanese and in that took part in the rise of a new age of the Japanese literature: the Known as one of Genji (源氏物語, genji monogatari ), the Romance of Ise , the Romance of Taketori , etc
The passage to the writing in kana
Former Japanese was written in three successive ways. Initially, the Manyou-kana was created starting from Chinese, use phonetic of the ideograms. Then the manyou-kana were simplified and formed the hiragana and katakana , which, although phonogrammic syllables today, results from ideograms used as former Japanese.
Phonetics of former Japanese
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