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Indonesian and Japanese

Countries

Countries

Indonesia
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Indonesia
Japan

Second Language

East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Palau

Regulated By

Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

Interesting Facts

  • The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
  • In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  • 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

Malay language
Korean Language

Derived From

Malay and Dutch Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2699
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1914
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

75
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Halo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Terima kasih
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Apa kabar?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Selamat Malam
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Malam yang baik
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Selamat Sore
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Selamat Pagi
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

mohon Untuk
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

maaf
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Selamat tinggal
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Aku cinta kamu
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Permisi
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sundanese
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Balinese
Hakata

Where They Speak

Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

3,300,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Minangkabau
Kansai

Where They Speak

Indonesia, Malaysia
kansai

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4631
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

163.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.16 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

23.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

140.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Bahasa Melayu
日本語

Alternative Names

Bahasa Indonesia
Nihongo

French Name

indonésien
japonais

German Name

Bahasa Indonesia
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Indonesians
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

7th Century
1185

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indonesian
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

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

Standard Forms

Indonesian
Japanese

Language Position

568
1 120
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Signed Forms

Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

id
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ind
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

ind
jpn

ISO 639 3

ind
jpn

ISO 639 6

ind
jpn

Glottocode

indo1316
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Indonesian and Japanese Alphabets

Indonesian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Indonesian and Japanese. In Indonesian Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Indonesian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Indonesian and Japanese languages. The Indonesian phonology consist Indonesian vowels and Indonesian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Indonesian greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Indonesian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Indonesian and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Indonesian and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Indonesian and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Indonesian are spoken in different Indonesian Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Indonesian vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Indonesian dialects include: Sundanese, Balinese. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Indonesian and Japanese Speaking population

Indonesian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Indonesian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Indonesian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Indonesian and Japanese on Indonesian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Indonesian and Japanese Language Codes

Indonesian and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Indonesian and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.