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About Japanese Language



Countries
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Countries
Japan 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Japan 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific 0

Minority Language
Palau 0

Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education 0

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.
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Similar To
Korean Language 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
0

Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
99 40

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
14 4

Scripts
Kana 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks 13

Greetings
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) 0

Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō) 0

How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?) 0

Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai) 0

Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa) 0

Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!) 0

Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō) 0

Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu) 0

Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai) 0

Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara) 0

I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu) 0

Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen) 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Sanuki 0

Where They Speak
Kagawa 0

How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00 28

Dialect 2
Hakata 0

Where They Speak
Fukuoka 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Kansai 0

Where They Speak
kansai 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
31 25

How Many People Speak
0

How Many People Speak?
128.00 million 14

Speaking Population
1.90 % 10

Native Speakers
128.00 million 9

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
日本語 0

Alternative Names
Not Available 0

French Name
japonais 0

German Name
Japanisch 0

Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo] 0

Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato) 0

History
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Origin
1185 0

Language Family
Japonic Family 0

Subgroup
Not Available 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
0

Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese 0

Standard Forms
Japanese 0

Language Position
8 8

Signed Forms
Signed Japanese 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
0

ISO 639 1
ja 0

ISO 639 2
0

ISO 639 2/T
jpn 0

ISO 639 2/B
jpn 0

ISO 639 3
jpn 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
nucl1643 0

Linguasphere
45-CAA-a 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb 0

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic 0

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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.

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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.

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