Japanese'

Unlike its RL namesake, this language has rather clear relativs in SW coastal China, Taipei and Hainan (historically also Korea). Language shift is likely to have taken place in Japan itself. Proto-Japonic' is reconstructed with the following consonant inventory:

*p	*pf	*t		*c	*k
*b	*bv	*d		*ɟ	*ɡ
		*s	*ɬ		*x
*m		*n	*l	*j	*ɣ	*w

whereas the Modern Japanese' inventory is

p	f	t	ɬ	s	ʂ	k	h
b	v	d	l	ɾ		ɡ	ʁ
m		n			j	w

• /ʂ/ has an allophone [ʐ] before /b v d ɡ/.