Countries
Japan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Korean Language
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9924
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1417
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
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)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Greece
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Griko
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Italy
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Mariupol
Where They Speak
kansai
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3125
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
japonais
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Japanisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1185
1500 BC
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Greek
Language Position
874
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
ell
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
gre
ISO 639 3
jpn
ell
ISO 639 6
jpn
ells
Glottocode
nucl1643
gree1276
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic