Countries
Countries
Japan
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Korean Language
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9931
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1420
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
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
alo
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
multumesc
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
ce mai faci?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
noapte Buna
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
buna Ziua
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
bună Dimineața
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Vă Rog
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
scuze
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
La revedere
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Scuza-Ma
Dialects
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
kansai
Croatia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
3110
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
Română
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
japonais
roumain; moldave
German Name
Japanisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Romanians
History
Origin
1185
1521
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Japanese
Romanian
Language Position
836
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ja
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
ron
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
rum
ISO 639 3
jpn
ron
ISO 639 6
jpn
ron
Glottocode
nucl1643
roma1327
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic