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Countries

Countries

Japan
Philippines

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Philippines

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia

Minority Language

Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino

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.
  • "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
  • "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.

Similar To

Korean Language
Tagalog Language

Derived From

-
Spanish Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9928
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1423
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-

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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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Kumusta

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Salamat

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Kumusta

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
magandang gabi

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Magandang gabi

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Magandang hapon

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Magandang umaga

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Mangyaring

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
pinagsisisihan

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Paalam

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Mahal kita

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
patawarin ninyo ako

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Bikol

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Philippines

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00100,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Hiligaynon

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Philippines

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.008,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Waray

Where They Speak

kansai
Philippines

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.002,600,000.00
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 million90.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %1.74 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million45.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million45.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
filipino

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Pilipino

French Name

japonais
filipino; pilipino

German Name

Japanisch
Pilipino

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Filipino people

History

Origin

1185
16th Century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Austronesian 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
Filipino

Language Position

834
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Filipino Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
No Data Available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
fil

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
fil

ISO 639 3

jpn
fil

ISO 639 6

jpn
fil

Glottocode

nucl1643
fili1244

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No Data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Filipino Alphabets

Japanese and Filipino Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Filipino. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Filipino Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Japanese and Filipino languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Filipino 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 Filipino greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Filipino are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Filipino Speaking population

Japanese and Filipino speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Filipino languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Filipino Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Filipino language is 1.74 %. 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 Filipino on Japanese vs Filipino where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Filipino Language Codes

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