Countries
Japan
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Japan
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Korean Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9927
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1421
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Arabic, Javanese, 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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Halo
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Sugeng énjing
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
matur nuwun
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kansai
Arekan
Where They Speak
kansai
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3116
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
japonais
javanais
German Name
Japanisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1185
450 AD
Language Family
Japonic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Javanese
Language Position
811
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
jav
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
jav
ISO 639 3
jpn
jav
ISO 639 6
jpn
jav
Glottocode
nucl1643
java1253
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