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Countries

Countries

Japan
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Ethiopia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa

Minority Language

Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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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.
  • Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
  • Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.

Similar To

Korean Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9933
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

57
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1431
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Ethiopic

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Selam

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
amesege'nallo'

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Dehina newot?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Dehna dur

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
melkam meshe't

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
i'ndemin walu

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
i'ndemin adäru

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
i'bakwon

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
aznallehu

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
tschao

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
afekirishalehu

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
yiqirta

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Gondar

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Gondar

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Gojjami

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Showa

Where They Speak

kansai
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million18.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.37 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
አማርኛ

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian

French Name

japonais
amharique

German Name

Japanisch
Amharisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[amarɨɲɲa]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Amharas

History

Origin

1185
13th century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

-
Semitic

Branch

-
Ethiopic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Ge'ez

Standard Forms

Japanese
Amharic

Language Position

855
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed Amharic

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
am

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
amh

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
amh

ISO 639 3

jpn
amh

ISO 639 6

jpn
amh

Glottocode

nucl1643
amha1245

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
12-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional

Japanese and Amharic Alphabets

Japanese and Amharic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Amharic. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Japanese and Amharic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Amharic languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Amharic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Amharic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese and Amharic 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 Japanese and Amharic dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Amharic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Amharic Dialects are spoken in different Amharic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Amharic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Amharic dialects include: Gondar , Gojjami. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Amharic Speaking population

Japanese and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. 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 Japanese and Amharic on Japanese vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Amharic Language Codes

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