Archaic Japanese language

stage of the Japanese language during the Heian period (794–1185)

is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. It was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically. The date of the earliest usage of this type of kana is not clear, but it was in use since at least the mid-7th century. The name "man'yōgana" derives from the ''Man'yōshū, a Japanese poetry anthology from the Nara period written with man'yōgana.''

oldest attested stage of the Japanese language

Kanbun ( 'Han writing') is a system for writing Literary Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period until the 20th century. Much of Japanese literature was written in this style and it was the general writing style for official and intellectual works throughout the period. As a result, Sino-Japanese vocabulary makes up a large portion of the Japanese lexicon and much classical Chinese literature is accessible to Japanese readers in some resemblance of the original.

Form of Japanese spoken from the 12th century through the 16th century

literary form of the Japanese language, standard until WW2, based on Heian-period Early Middle Japanese with later influences

Japanese words of Chinese origin

use of Japan's syllabic scripts in pre-modern time

archaic kana orthography system used to write Japanese during the Nara period

Eastern dialect of Japanese during Nara period

unification of the written and spoken forms of Japanese language

Japanese written language