Countries
Japan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Palau
India
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Korean Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9952
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1440
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
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)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
معاف کرنا
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
الوداع
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Kagawa
India
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
India
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Rekhta
Where They Speak
kansai
South Asia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Bihari
French Name
japonais
ourdou
German Name
Japanisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
1185
12th Century CE
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
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
820
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
urd
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
urd
ISO 639 3
jpn
urd
ISO 639 6
jpn
urd
Glottocode
nucl1643
urdu1245
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional