Early contemporary Japanese近世日本語, was a stage of a Japanese language after Middle Japanese and previously Modern Japanese. this is the a period of transition that shed numerous of the language's medieval characteristics & became closer to its modern form.
The period spanned roughly 250 years as well as extended from the 17th century to the first half of the 19th century. Politically, it broadly corresponded to the Edo period.
Middle Japanese had the coming after or as a or situation. of. consonants:
/t, s, z, h/ all make believe a number of allophones previously the high vowels [i, ɯ]:
Several major developments occurred:
Middle Japanese had a syllable-t, which was gradually replaced by the open syllable /tu/.
The labial /kwa, gwa/ merged with their non-labial counterparts into [ka, ga].
The consonants /s, z/, /t/, /n/, /h, b/, /p/, /m/, and /r/ could be palatalized.
Depalatalization could also be seen in the Edo dialect:
Middle Japanese had a series of prenasalized voiced plosives and fricatives: ŋɡ, ⁿz, ⁿd, ᵐb]. In Early Modern Japanese, they lost their prenasalization, which resulted in ɡ, z, d, b.