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Countries

Countries

Japan
Estonia, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Estonia, Gambia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Europe

Minority Language

Palau
Denmark, Russia, Sweden

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Institute of the Estonian Language

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.
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.

Similar To

Korean Language
Finnish

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9927
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1418
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

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Tere

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
aitäh

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
kuidas sul läheb

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Head ööd

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Tere õhtust

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Tere päevast

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Tere hommikust

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Palun

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Vabandust

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Head aega

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
ma armastan sind

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Vabandage

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Keskmurre

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Tartu

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Georgia, South Estonia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.001,300,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Idamurre

Where They Speak

kansai
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

318
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million1.10 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million0.95 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million1.10 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
eesti keel

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Eesti keel

French Name

japonais
estonien

German Name

Japanisch
Estnisch

Pronunciation

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

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Estonians

History

Origin

1185
13th century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

-
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Estonian

Language Position

822
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Estonian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
et

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
est

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
est

ISO 639 3

jpn
est

ISO 639 6

jpn
est

Glottocode

nucl1643
esto1258

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Japanese and Estonian Alphabets

Japanese and Estonian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Estonian. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Japanese and Estonian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Estonian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Estonian Speaking population

Japanese and Estonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Estonian languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Estonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 %. 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 Estonian on Japanese vs Estonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Estonian Language Codes

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