Countries
Japan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
19
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Korean Language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1425
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Latin
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)
bok
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
hvala
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
kako si
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
laku noć
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
dobar dan
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
dobro jutro
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
molim
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Oprostite
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Doviđenja
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Croatia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
kansai
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3179
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %89.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Hrvatski
French Name
japonais
croate
German Name
Japanisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Croats
Origin
1185
9th century
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
hrv
ISO 639 3
jpn
hrv
ISO 639 6
jpn
hrv
Glottocode
nucl1643
croa1245
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic