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1 History and classification

• Japanese is a relative of the Altaic language family. Other languages in this group include Mongolian, and Turkish. Evidence for this theory lies in the fact that like Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, and Korean, Japanese is an agglutinative language, with two (phonologically distinctive) tones, similar to Serbian/Croatian and Swedish. This tonal system is often referred to as a pitch accent in linguisticsBroadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. The study of linguistics can be thought of along three major axes, the endpoints of which are described below: Synchronic and diachronic Sy. Additionally, there are a suggestive number of apparently regular correspondences in basic vocabulary, such as ishi "stone" to Turkic das, yottsu "four" to Turkic dört.
• Japanese is a relative of other Asian languages. This theory maintains that Japanese split from - or had large influences from - other East AsianEast Asia is a subregion of Asia. It covers about 6,640,000 km², or 15 percent of the continent. The following countries are located in East Asia: China, except for the province of Qinghai and the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, which may also b languages such as Korean (and possibly the Sino-Tibetan languagesSino-Tibetan languages form a language family of about 250 languages of East Asia, in number of speakers worldwide second only to Indo-European. Many of them are tonal. Chinese languages: many of which are 'monosyllabic', analytic languages Tibeto-Burman). Phonological and lexical similarities to Malayo-Polynesian languagesThe Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages. They are widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, which is spo have been noted.
• Japanese is related to southern Asian languages. Some researchers have suggested a possible relationship between Japanese and TamilTamil is one of the Dravidian languages. It is one of the Classical languages of the world. The 'l' in the word 'Tamil' is pronounced like a retroflex 'r', and is often transliterated as "zh". The letter which is found in (Tamil) is believed to have uniqu, a member of the Dravidian language family spoken in southern India.
• Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic grammatical substructure, and core Austronesian vocabulary.
• Japanese is a language isolate, unrelated to any other known language except other Japonic languages (notably Okinawan).

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