"現代語" meaning in Japanese

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Noun

IPA: [ɡẽ̞nda̠iɡo̞] Forms: 現代語 [canonical] (ruby: 現(げん), 代(だい), 語(ご)), gendaigo [romanization]
Etymology: From 現代(げんだい) (gendai, “modern; contemporary”) + 語(ご) (-go, “language”). Etymology templates: {{ja-com|現代|げんだい|語|-ご|t1=modern; contemporary|t2=language}} 現代(げんだい) (gendai, “modern; contemporary”) + 語(ご) (-go, “language”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|げんだいご}} 現(げん)代(だい)語(ご) • (gendaigo)
  1. modern language
    Sense id: en-現代語-ja-noun-3KZwKeIK Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms suffixed with 語 read as ご, Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō), Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Linguistics Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 53 47 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 62 38 Disambiguation of Japanese terms suffixed with 語 read as ご: 57 43 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō): 80 20 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 60 40 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 61 39 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Disambiguation of Linguistics: 55 45
  2. (especially in reference to Japanese) modern Japanese; Japanese in its current form, spoken since the Meiji era and based on the Tokyo dialect Tags: especially
    Sense id: en-現代語-ja-noun-T5RGb56T Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese terms read with on'yomi, Japanese terms with 3 kanji, Linguistics Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 53 47 Disambiguation of Japanese terms read with on'yomi: 13 87 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 3 kanji: 15 85 Disambiguation of Linguistics: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 標準語 (hyōjungo) (english: standard language), 国語 (kokugo) (english: national language) 
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