Countries
Japan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Japan
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Africa
Minority Language
Palau
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Korean Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9932
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1417
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Latin
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
hallo
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Dankie
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
goeie nag
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
goeie more
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
asseblief
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
jammer
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Totsiens
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Kagawa
-
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
-
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kansai
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
kansai
Namibia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Cape Dutch
French Name
japonais
afrikaans
German Name
Japanisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Afrikaners
Origin
1185
17th Century
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
afr
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
afr
ISO 639 3
jpn
afr
ISO 639 6
jpn
afrs
Glottocode
nucl1643
afri1274
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic