Countries
Japan
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Korean Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1429
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Silaw
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Sipas
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Bayanit bash
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Bê zehmet
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bibûre
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Kagawa
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
kansai
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
japonais
kurde
German Name
Japanisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Kurds
Origin
1185
16th century CE
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Japanese
Kurdish
Language Position
814
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ja
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
kur
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
kur
ISO 639 3
jpn
kur
ISO 639 6
jpn
kur
Glottocode
nucl1643
kurd1259
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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