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
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Prakrit Language
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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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)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Not present
Where They Speak
Kagawa
-
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
-
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
-
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?
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
Origin
1185
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
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
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