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Countries

Countries

Japan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Palau
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Korean Language
Armenian

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

57
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1417
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Arabic, Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
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)
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Greece

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Griko

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Italy

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Mariupol

Where They Speak

kansai
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3125
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

japonais
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Japanisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

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

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

1185
1500 BC

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Hellenic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Japanese
Modern Greek

Language Position

874
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
ell

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
gre

ISO 639 3

jpn
ell

ISO 639 6

jpn
ells

Glottocode

nucl1643
gree1276

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Japanese and Greek Alphabets

Japanese and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Greek. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Japanese and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Greek Speaking population

Japanese and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Japanese vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Greek Language Codes

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