Home›East and Southeast Asian Literature›Original LanguageBrowse ByOriginal LanguageOriginal language groups authors by the language they actually wrote in. Wikipedia identifies Jane Austen as "an English writer," and her six novels were all composed in English rather than translated into it. This dimension lets a visitor find every author who wrote in the same original language.FactsOriginal LanguageSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1050 BCE 1Primary Language or TraditionWell-attestedEast and Southeast Asian 1Original LanguageFilter Results11 entriesGenreAllBiography (1)Bunraku (1)Crime Fiction (1)Detective Fiction (1)Drama (2)Epic (1)Fantasy (2)Feminist Literature (1)Historical Drama (1)Historical Mystery (1)Kabuki (1)Lyric Poetry (1)Mystery Fiction (1)Nonfiction Prose (5)Poetry (10)Science Fiction (1)Short Fiction (4)The Novel (8)Universal History (1)Zuihitsu (1)NationalityAllChina (7)Japan (2)Joseon (1)Malaysia (1)Netherlands (1)Philippines (2)South Korea (1)Vietnam (1)Active EraAll-145 to -86 (1)-340 to -278 (1)1283 to 1350 (1)1296 to 1372 (1)1500 to 1582 (1)1506 to 1544 (1)1550 to 1616 (1)1560 to 1637 (1)1569 to 1618 (1)1574 to 1646 (1)1637 to 1692 (1)1642 to 1693 (1)1644 to 1694 (1)1653 to 1725 (1)1701 to 1754 (1)1710 to 1765 (1)1766 to 1820 (1)1788 to 1862 (1)1861 to 1896 (1)1863 to 1913 (1)1867 to 1916 (1)1881 to 1936 (5)1886 to 1965 (1)1892 to 1927 (1)1892 to 1962 (1)1899 to 1972 (1)1904 to 1986 (1)1904 to 2005 (1)1910 to 1967 (1)1925 to 1970 (1)1935 to 2023 (1)1958 to 2026 (1)701 to 762 (1)966 to 1025 (1)973 to 1014 (1)978 to 1014 (1)MovementAllMisty Poetry (1)New Culture Movement (5)Influenced ByAllBoris Pasternak (1)Federico García Lorca (1)Jean-Paul Sartre (1)Qu Yuan (1)William Faulkner (1)Attested From (Year)All450 BCE (1)450 (1)601 (1)700 (1)765 (1)800 (1)1201 (1)1521 (1)1955 (1)Attested To (Year)All150 (1)Classification ConfidenceAllEstablished (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory I (2)Category II (1)Category IV (5)ISO 639-3 CodeAllcmn (1)deu (1)eng (1)ja (1)ko (1)lzh (1)ron (1)spa (1)tgl (1)Number of LanguagesAll30 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (1)Speaker CountAll22,000,000 (1)81,000,000 (1)86,000,000 (1)87,000,000 (1)123,000,000 (1)135,000,000 (1)560,000,000 (1)941,000,000 (1)1,300,000,000 (1)1,500,000,000 (1)StatusAllClassical (No Native Speakers) (1)Living (9)ToneAllNot Tonal (6)Tonal (3)Word OrderAllOther (1)SOV (2)SVO (5)VSO (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 11Classical ChineseOriginal Language2 entriesEnglishOriginal Language5 entriesGermanOriginal Language1 entryJapaneseOriginal Language19 entriesKoreanOriginal Language4 entriesMandarin ChineseOriginal Language3 entriesRomanianOriginal Language1 entrySiniticOriginal Language17 entriesSpanishOriginal Language1 entryTagalogOriginal Language1 entryVietnameseOriginal Language2 entriesSources1. Book of Documents (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaBook of Documents, modern-script chapters dating sentenceQuote, Book of Documents, modern-script chapters dating sentenceSome of its modern-script chapters are among the earliest examples of Chinese prose, recording speeches from the early years of the Zhou dynasty in the late 11th century BC.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.