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Countries

Japan

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Japan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Palau

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

Interesting Facts

In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Korean Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 40 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 4 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks

Rank: 19 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki

Where They Speak

Kagawa

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00

Rank: 61 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Hakata

Where They Speak

Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00

Rank: 4 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Kansai

Where They Speak

kansai

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 25 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.90 %

Rank: 10 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

128.00 million

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million

Rank: 54 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

日本語

Alternative Names

Nihongo

French Name

japonais

German Name

Japanisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1185

Language Family

Japonic Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Japanese

Language Position

Rank: 8 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn

ISO 639 2/B

jpn

ISO 639 3

jpn

ISO 639 6

jpn

Glottocode

nucl1643

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Japanese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Japanese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Japanese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Japanese. Japanese phonology gives Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. There are 5 vowels and 14 consonants in Japanese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Japanese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Japanese language is given in detail in this section.

All Japanese countries

Want to explore all Japanese countries? About Japanese language serves you with all Japanese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Japanese as official language are called as Japanese countries.

Countries that use Japanese as their National Language are: Japan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Japanese as second language are: Japanese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Japanese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Japanese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Japanese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Japanese language.Learn Japanese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank you: ありがとう (Arigatō)
Good Morning: おはよう (Ohayō)
Good Evening: こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon: こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

All Japanese Language Codes

Get to know all Japanese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Japanese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.