Ancient Japanese- Yamato Kotoba

Japan has a tradition of adopting words from other languages. However there are a lot many original Japanese words which we many times do not know.
Yamato Kotoba (大和言葉) are such ancient Japanese words. Here Yamato is an ancient name of Japan.

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