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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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

Dialects

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

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

History

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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Code

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
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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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Japanese and Kirundi Alphabets

Japanese and Kirundi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Kirundi. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Japanese and Kirundi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Kirundi 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 Kirundi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Kirundi are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Kirundi Speaking population

Japanese and Kirundi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Kirundi languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Kirundi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 %. 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 Kirundi on Japanese vs Kirundi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Kirundi Language Codes

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