Countries
Japan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Hawaii
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Korean Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9928
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1420
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
您好
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
谢谢
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
你好吗？
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
晚安
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
下午好
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
早上好
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
请
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
遗憾
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
再见
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
我爱你
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Kagawa
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
kansai
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
japonais
cantonais
German Name
Japanisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Han Chinese
Origin
1185
17th century
Language Family
Japonic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
81
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ja
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
yue
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
yue
ISO 639 3
jpn
No data available
ISO 639 6
jpn
yue
Glottocode
nucl1643
cant1236
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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