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Countries

Countries

Japan
India

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

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.
  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.

Similar To

Korean Language
Old German Language

Derived From

-
Prakrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9952
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

516
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1436
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Devanagari

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 weeks20 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
शुभः सायंकालः

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
शुभ दुपार

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
कृपया (kripayā)

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Not present

Where They Speak

Kagawa
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How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Not present

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
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How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00140,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Not present

Where They Speak

kansai
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How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00140,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

310
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million14.10 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million14.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million-
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam

French Name

japonais
sanskrit

German Name

Japanisch
Sanskrit

Pronunciation

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

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Sanskrit speakers

History

Origin

1185
2000 B.C.

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Vedic Sanskrit

Standard Forms

Japanese
Sanskrit

Language Position

823
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
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Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
sa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
san

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
san

ISO 639 3

jpn
san

ISO 639 6

jpn
san

Glottocode

nucl1643
sans1269

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Ancient

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic

Japanese and Sanskrit Alphabets

Japanese and Sanskrit Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Sanskrit. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Japanese and Sanskrit languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Sanskrit are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Sanskrit Speaking population

Japanese and Sanskrit speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Sanskrit languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Sanskrit Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 %. 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 Sanskrit on Japanese vs Sanskrit where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Sanskrit Language Codes

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