language families have been proposed, most systematically with Koreanic, but none have been conclusively demonstrated. The extant Japonic languages belong...

classification of the Japonic languages and their external relations is unclear. Linguists traditionally consider the Japonic languages to belong to an independent...

Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family. It has been reconstructed...

The Peninsular Japonic languages are now-extinct Japonic languages reflected in ancient placenames and glosses from central and southern parts of the...

proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages.: 73 ...

that Japonic languages were spoken in central and southern parts of the peninsula. There have been many attempts to link Koreanic with other language families...

with Japanese, these languages are part of the Japonic language family, but they are separate languages,[citation needed] and are not mutually intelligible...

Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese...

language, they make up the Japonic language family. Although Japanese is spoken in the Ryukyu Islands, the Ryukyu and Japanese languages are not mutually intelligible...

other scholars have emphasized similarities with Japonic languages. Lee and Ramsey suggest that the language was intermediate between the two families. Other...