Countries
United States of America
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
North America
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
- 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.
Similar To
Apache Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3699
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3414
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Yá'át'ééh
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Ahéhee'
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
T'aa shoodi
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Nízhdził
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Hágoónee’
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Shoohá
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Arizona
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
170,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Navajo2
Hakata
Where They Speak
New Mexico
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
170,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Navajo3
Kansai
Where They Speak
Utah
kansai
How Many People Speak
120,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
431
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
日本語
Alternative Names
Navaho
Nihongo
French Name
navaho
japonais
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1500 CE
1185
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Navajo
Japanese
Language Position
298
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nv
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
nav
jpn
ISO 639 3
nav
jpn
ISO 639 6
nav
jpn
Glottocode
nava1243
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic