Traditional Japanese must have sounded so much closer to Kansai dialect than Standard Japanese of today.
@user-nupunuputintin
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ええ事いわはしゃりますな😊
@umevillage
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Well there were Eastern dialects of ancient Japanese, which sounded like modern Kanto dialects. There are some traces that suggest the existence of lost indigenous languages (Japonic or not) such as pre-proto-Ainu in the East to North or Hayato language in Kyushu and those could have been substrata. Hachijo language for example, being isolated from the main island, is believed to still preserve many traits of ancient Earstern Japanese.
@AbsoluteGames
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Thats not likely so. The oldest pronunciations are spoken in the farthest region from Kyoto, such as Tohoku or the southern Kyushu . In contrast the newest version of Japanese are always updated in Kyoto the center of Japanese culture for long time until Tokugawa comes in power later in Tokyo.
One thing is certain... Japanese has had the most chaotic evolution of written language in the world, if everything the video shows. They went from using chinese characters for meaning, to writing characters for their sound, to reading chinese characters as native words, then to making an equivalent meaning of native words with chinese sounds/kanji. Then adding over 200 proto-hiragana
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