Japanese Language Family
Which pretty much just contains japanese and okinawan.
Japanese language family. Japonic or japanese ryukyuan is a language family comprising japanese spoken in the main islands of japan and the ryukyuan languages spoken in the ryukyu islands the family is universally accepted by linguists and significant progress has been made in reconstructing the proto language. But in japanese learning family related terms can be tricky. Japanese 日本語 nihongo ɲ ihõŋɡo is an east asian language spoken by about 128 million people primarily in japan where it is the national language it is a member of the japonic or japanese ryukyuan language family and its relation to other languages such as korean is debated japonic languages have been grouped with other language families such as ainu austroasiatic and. The currently most supported view is that the japonic languages sometimes also japanic are their own primary language family consisting of japanese ryukyuan and peninsular japonic the hachijō language is sometimes classificated as fourth branch of the japonic language family but currently seen as a very divergent dialect of eastern japanese.
The current prevailing theory is that it belongs to the japonic language family. The reconstruction implies a split between all dialects of japanese and all ryukyuan varieties.