Countries
Belarus, Poland
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Japan
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Palau
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- 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
Russian and Ukrainian
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4899
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3914
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Dziakuj
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Dabranač
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Kali laska
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Vybačajcie
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
da pabačennia
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Hakata
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
kansai
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
日本語
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Nihongo
French Name
biélorusse
japonais
German Name
Weißrussisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
18th century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Japanese
Language Position
798
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
bel
jpn
ISO 639 3
bel
jpn
ISO 639 6
bel
jpn
Glottocode
bela1254
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic