Countries
Fiji, India
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Korean Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4499
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3314
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Marwari
Hakata
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Kansai
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
kansai
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2131
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
日本語
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Nihongo
French Name
hindi
japonais
German Name
Hindi
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
7th Century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Japanese
Language Position
58
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
hin
jpn
ISO 639 3
hin
jpn
ISO 639 6
hins
jpn
Glottocode
hind1269
nucl1643
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic