Countries
Japan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Korean Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9947
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1431
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Devanagari
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 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Kagawa
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Surati
Where They Speak
kansai
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How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
318
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
japonais
goudjrati
German Name
Japanisch
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Gujaratis
Origin
1185
15
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
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Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
guj
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
guj
ISO 639 3
jpn
guj
ISO 639 6
jpn
guj
Glottocode
nucl1643
guja1252
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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