Home›Eurasian Language Families›Macro-area›Japonic and Koreanic›All Japonic and KoreanicBrowse ByAll Japonic and KoreanicJaponic, the family that includes Japanese and the endangered Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa and the southern Japanese islands, and Koreanic, the family that includes Korean and a small number of closely related historical varieties, are two separate language families of East Asia with no demonstrated genetic relationship to each other, though they are frequently discussed together and have both been proposed, without wide acceptance, as relatives of the Altaic languages. This group holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Japonic, Koreanic or Ryukyuan, or as a named branch within either family.All Japonic and KoreanicComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)All Japonic and KoreanicFilter Results8 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllSouthern Ryukyuan languages (1)Speaker Count BandAll592 to 23,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (3)RegionAllAsia (5)Japan (3)North Korea (1)South Korea (1)The Korean Peninsula (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (3)Classification StatusAllEstablished (7)Number of LanguagesAll2 (2)16 to 1,408 (1)3 to 5 (1)6 to 15 (3)In GroupAllJaponic and Koreanic (8)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 8Amami languagesEurasian Language FamiliesAmami Ōshima languageEurasian Language FamiliesJaponicEurasian Language FamiliesKoreanicEurasian Language FamiliesMacro-Yaeyama languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNorthern Ryukyuan languagesEurasian Language FamiliesRyukyuanEurasian Language FamiliesSouthern Ryukyuan languagesEurasian Language FamiliesComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.