Countries
Japan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Korean Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1425
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
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)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Serbia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Torlakian
Where They Speak
kansai
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Montenegrin
French Name
japonais
serbe
German Name
Japanisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Serbs
Origin
1185
11th Century
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
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Serbian
Language Position
844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
srp
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
srp
ISO 639 3
jpn
srp
ISO 639 6
jpn
srp
Glottocode
nucl1643
serb1264
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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