Countries
Japan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Japan
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Korean Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1423
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
56
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 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Kagawa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Wu
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Yue
Where They Speak
kansai
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
japonais
chinois
German Name
Japanisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Han
Origin
1185
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
81
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
zho
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
chi
ISO 639 3
jpn
zho
ISO 639 6
jpn
zho
Glottocode
nucl1643
sini1245
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating