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Countries

Countries

Japan
Indonesia

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Indonesia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia

Minority Language

Palau
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname

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.
  • The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
  • The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.

Similar To

Korean Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9927
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1421
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Arabic, Javanese, Latin

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 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Halo

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
matur nuwun

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
piye kabare?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
wengi sing apik

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Sugeng sọnten

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Sugeng siang

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Sugeng énjing

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
matur nuwun

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Nyuwun pangapunten

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Kepanggih malih benjang

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Kula tresna panjengan

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Nuwun séwu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Pekalongan

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Cirebon

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Arekan

Where They Speak

kansai
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3116
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million82.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %1.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million76.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million82.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
basa Jawa

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Djawa, Jawa

French Name

japonais
javanais

German Name

Japanisch
Javanisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)

History

Origin

1185
450 AD

Language Family

Japonic Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup

-
Indonesian

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Javanese

Language Position

811
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Javanese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
jv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
jav

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
jav

ISO 639 3

jpn
jav

ISO 639 6

jpn
jav

Glottocode

nucl1643
java1253

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Japanese and Javanese Alphabets

Japanese and Javanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Javanese. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Javanese Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Japanese and Javanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Javanese 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 Javanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Javanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Javanese Speaking population

Japanese and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. 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 Javanese on Japanese vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Javanese Language Codes

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