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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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!

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

317
0 188
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How Many People Speak

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
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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

History

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

Code

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

Japanese and Hebrew Alphabets

Japanese and Hebrew Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Hebrew. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Hebrew Alphabets there are 22 letters. To learn Japanese and Hebrew languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Hebrew 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 Hebrew greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Hebrew are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Hebrew Speaking population

Japanese and Hebrew speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Hebrew languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Hebrew Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hebrew language is 0.11 %. 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 Hebrew on Japanese vs Hebrew where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Hebrew Language Codes

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