Countries
Japan
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Poland
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academy of the Hebrew 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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Korean Language
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
-
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9922
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
50
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1422
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, 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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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Israel
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
kansai
Israel
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
317
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
japonais
hébreu
German Name
Japanisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
1185
1000 BC
Language Family
Japonic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
heb
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
heb
ISO 639 3
jpn
heb
ISO 639 6
jpn
heb
Glottocode
nucl1643
hebr1246
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic