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Countries

Countries

Japan
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Palau
South Africa

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Not Available

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Korean Language
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Derived From

Not Available
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1421
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

57
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Hello

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Thank you

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
How are you?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Night

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Good Morning

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Please

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Sorry

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Bye

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
I love you

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
American English

Where They Speak

Kagawa
United States of America

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

NA4,500,000.00
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Welsh English

Where They Speak

kansai
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

NA2,500,000.00
1400 96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

31188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million1,200.00 million
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %5.43 %
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million400.00 million
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

NA400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
English

Alternative Names

Not Available
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French Name

japonais
anglais

German Name

Japanisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

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

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
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History

Origin

1185
5th Century AD

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Not Available
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Branch

Not Available
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Japanese
Standard English

Language Position

83
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
eng

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
eng

ISO 639 3

jpn
eng

ISO 639 6

Not Available
engs

Glottocode

nucl1643
stan1293

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Japanese and English Alphabets

Japanese and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and English. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Japanese and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and English Speaking population

Japanese and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and English languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Japanese vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and English Language Codes

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