Countries
Japan
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Korean Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9929
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1413
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
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)
Moi
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Kiitos
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
haluta
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Anteeksi
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Heippa
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Finland
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Rauma
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
kansai
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
3121
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Suomi
French Name
japonais
finnois
German Name
Japanisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
ethnic Finns
Origin
1185
1543
Language Family
Japonic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Japanese
standard Finnish
Language Position
822
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
fin
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
fin
ISO 639 3
jpn
fin
ISO 639 6
jpn
fin
Glottocode
nucl1643
finn1318
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic