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Countries

Countries

Japan
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
India, Nepal

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
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.
  • Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
  • Maithili has rich literature.

Similar To

Korean Language
Bhojpuri Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9947
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1422
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Devanagari

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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
pranam

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
dhanyabad

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Śubharātri

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
shubh sandhya

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
dopahar ke bad namaskar

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Suprabhaat

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
kripaya

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
maf karai

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Alavidā

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
kripaya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Tharuwat

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Nepal

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Madhubani

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
North India

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Khortha

Where They Speak

kansai
Deoghar, France

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3115
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million32.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.41 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million27.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million2.80 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia

French Name

japonais
maithili

German Name

Japanisch
Maithili

Pronunciation

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

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Maithil

History

Origin

1185
14th century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Maithili

Language Position

840
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Maithili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
mai

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
mai

ISO 639 3

jpn
mai

ISO 639 6

jpn
mai

Glottocode

nucl1643
mait1250

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Maithili Alphabets

Japanese and Maithili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Maithili. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Maithili Alphabets there are 47 letters. To learn Japanese and Maithili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Maithili 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 Maithili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Maithili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Maithili Speaking population

Japanese and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. 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 Maithili on Japanese vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Maithili Language Codes

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