>>12092329>Latinate verbs are conjugated on me, you, them, us while Japonic verbs are conjugated on polite/impolite.This is sort of a misunderstanding. First off, latin languages often do have an equivalent of polite forms and European languages in general have a polite You that you conjugate in accordance to for politeness (often referred to as formal forms in classrooms), such as Vous in French, Sie in German, Usted in Spanish, etc. English is the main exception in not giving a fuck about politeness.
While it is true that Japanese does not conjugate of I/he/she/you/they, it is not really useful to think that politeness is the parallel "replacement" for that. It's more there's a seperate vocab to indicate politeness in general (nouns and verbs as well), but the more casual politeness often becomes just です and attaching ますto verbs. But that's more conceptually in line with having things that indicate politeness than it being politeness as a replacement for you, really the I/he/she/they distinction is dropped and the only thing that's similar is it's sort of equiv to a formal You in European languages. Language is too complicated that I don't want to expand.
