Countries
Japan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Korean Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9952
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1441
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Bengali
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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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
nomoskaar
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
subha abeli
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
suprobhaat
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
anugroha kori
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
biḍai
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
kansai
Assam
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
japonais
assamais
German Name
Japanisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Assamese people
Origin
1185
7th century A.D
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Japanese
Assamese
Language Position
865
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
asm
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
asm
ISO 639 3
jpn
asm
ISO 639 6
jpn
asm
Glottocode
nucl1643
assa1263
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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