Family / Group : Japonic
Area : Eurasia
Type : agglutinative-fusional; accusative marking
Inflectional language : No
Language with gender : No
Sources of lexicon : Heterolexical : Chinese, indigenous, English
Language with sortal classifiers : Yes
Syntactics for numerals : NUM N
Specific traits : SOV, postpositions, modifiers precede noun head
Numeration base : Decimal, 10000
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