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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Korean Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9951
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1435
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Namaskara
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
yedde kaande
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Daya maltadu
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Barpe
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Jain
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Girijan
Where They Speak
kansai
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
314
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
Tulu
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
japonais
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German Name
Japanisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Tuluva
Origin
1185
14
Language Family
Japonic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Tulu
Language Position
823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
tul
ISO 639 3
jpn
tcy
ISO 639 6
jpn
tcy
Glottocode
nucl1643
tulu1258
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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