Countries
Japan
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
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, Oceania
Minority Language
Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Korean Language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9944
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1433
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
54
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)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Marwari
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kansai
Bundeli
Where They Speak
kansai
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
japonais
hindi
German Name
Japanisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Hindustani people
Origin
1185
7th Century
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Hindi
Language Position
85
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
hin
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
hin
ISO 639 3
jpn
hin
ISO 639 6
jpn
hins
Glottocode
nucl1643
hind1269
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic