Countries
Japan
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Korean Language
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9932
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1423
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
cześć
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
dziękuję
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Jak się masz?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
dobranoc
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
dzień dobry
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Dzień dobry
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
proszę
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Przepraszam
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
do widzenia
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Kashubian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Poland
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Masovian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Poland
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Silesian
Where They Speak
kansai
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3134
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
Polski
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
japonais
polonais
German Name
Japanisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Poles
Origin
1185
1270
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Japanese
Polish
Language Position
824
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
pol
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
pol
ISO 639 3
jpn
pol
ISO 639 6
jpn
pols
Glottocode
nucl1643
poli1260
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic