The details around the Japanese language are murky, to but things lightly. There is debate as to whether Japanese is an Isolate, is a part of the Japonic language family, or somewhere in between. What we do know is that Japanese is spoken by more than 127 million people world-wide and that the language has been around (spoken and written) for quite some time, with the first known Japanese writing dating to around the 8th century CE. 

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