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Countries

Countries
Japan

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Japan

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language
Palau

Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.

Similar To
Korean Language

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
99 40

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
14 4

Scripts
Kana

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks 19

Greetings

Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1
Sanuki

Where They Speak
Kagawa

How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00 61

Dialect 2
Hakata

Where They Speak
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00 4

Dialect 3
Kansai

Where They Speak
kansai

How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00 4

Total No. Of Dialects
31 25

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
128.00 million 14

Speaking Population
1.90 % 10

Native Speakers
128.00 million 9

Second Language Speakers
3.00 million 54

Native Name
日本語

Alternative Names
Nihongo

French Name
japonais

German Name
Japanisch

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

Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin
1185

Language Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms
Japanese

Language Position
8 8

Signed Forms
Signed Japanese

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
jpn

ISO 639 2/B
jpn

ISO 639 3
jpn

ISO 639 6
jpn

Glottocode
nucl1643

Linguasphere
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic

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Origin of Japanese language

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Japanese population

Japanese population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Japanese language. Japanese language is spoken by 128.00 million people in the world. Most of the Japanese population lies in the Japanese Speaking Countries. Japanese language is spoken as first language by 128.00 million people and as second language by about 3.00 million people. Get to know Japanese speaking population in detail.

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Japanese writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Japanese writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Japanese language. Some languages share common writing systems. Kana script is used by Japanese language. Learn more about . 

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