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Countries

Countries

Japan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia

Minority Language

Palau
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Korean Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9932
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1423
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

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)
سلام

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
متشکرم

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
چطور هستید?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
شب بخیر

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
صبح به خیر

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
لطفا

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
متاسف

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
خدا حافظ

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

kansai
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3112
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
فارسی

Alternative Names

Nihongo
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

japonais
persan

German Name

Japanisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

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

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Persian people

History

Origin

1185
1500 BC

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Japanese
Persian

Language Position

823
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
fas

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
per

ISO 639 3

jpn
pes

ISO 639 6

jpn
pers

Glottocode

nucl1643
fars1254

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic

Japanese and Persian Alphabets

Japanese and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Persian. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Japanese and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Persian Speaking population

Japanese and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Japanese vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Persian Language Codes

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