Countries
Japan
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Africa
Minority Language
Palau
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Korean Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
-
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9944
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1432
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
sannu
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
gode ku
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
yaya dai
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
barka da rana
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
mai kyau safe
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Don Allah
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
yi hakuri
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
sai anjima
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Niger
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Daragaram
Where They Speak
kansai
Niger
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
3120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
japonais
haoussa
German Name
Japanisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
1185
14
Language Family
Japonic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Chadic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Hausa
Language Position
834
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
hau
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
hau
ISO 639 3
jpn
hau
ISO 639 6
jpn
hau
Glottocode
nucl1643
haus1257
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional