Modern Japanese has the moraic nasal ("n"), which can represent a variety of sounds depending on what sounds come before and after it. Syllable final nasals are believed by many scholars to have existed in Proto-Japonic, but all agree that they were lost by the time of Old Japanese. They first re-appeared in Early Middle Japanese, with the introduction of Middle Chinese loanwords ending in "-n" and "-m". Therefore, the majority of occurrences of ("n") in modern Japanese occur in Sino-Japanese vocabulary. Originally, syllabic "n" and "m" were phonemically and phonologically distinct, although the distinction was never written down, and was lost by Early Modern Japanese. For example,