Early Modern Japanese

Early Modern Japanese
近世日本語
RegionJapan
EraEvolved into Modern Japanese in the mid-19th century
Japonic
Early forms
Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

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.

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.

  1. ^ Shibatani (1990: 119)

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