Countries
Japan
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Korean Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9921
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1419
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
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Bwakeye
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Urakoze
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Mwaramutse
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Ndasubiza
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
N’agasaga
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Ha
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Shubi
Where They Speak
kansai
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
japonais
rundi
German Name
Japanisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
1185
1500
Language Family
Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Kirundi
Language Position
886
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
ja
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
run
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
run
ISO 639 3
jpn
run
ISO 639 6
jpn
run
Glottocode
nucl1643
rund1242
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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