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Japanese and Portuguese

Countries

Countries

Japan
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Total No. Of Countries

110
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Portugal

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Palau
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

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.
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.

Similar To

Korean Language
Spanish and Galician Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9923
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Olá

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
obrigado

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Como você está?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
boa noite

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
boa Noite

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
boa Tarde

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
bom Dia

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Por Favor

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
pesaroso

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
tchau

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Eu te amo

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
desculpe me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Brazilian Portuguese

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Brazil

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
European Portuguese

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Portugal

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

Where They Speak

kansai
Daman and Diu

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.004,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3126
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million231.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %3.27 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million216.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
Português

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Português

French Name

japonais
portugais

German Name

Japanisch
Portugiesisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Portuguese people or portugueses

History

Origin

1185
3rd Century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Medieval Galician

Standard Forms

Japanese
Portuguese

Language Position

86
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed Portuguese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
pt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
por

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
por

ISO 639 3

jpn
por

ISO 639 6

jpn
por

Glottocode

nucl1643
port1283

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
51-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Portuguese Alphabets

Japanese and Portuguese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Portuguese. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Japanese and Portuguese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Portuguese 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 Portuguese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Portuguese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Portuguese Speaking population

Japanese and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. 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 Portuguese on Japanese vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Portuguese Language Codes

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