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Sanskrit
Sanskrit

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Countries

Countries

India
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

India
Japan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

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Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

Interesting Facts

  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  • 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

Old German Language
Korean Language

Derived From

Prakrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5299
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

165
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3614
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

कृपया (kripayā)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Sanuki

Where They Speak

-
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

140,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Hakata

Where They Speak

-
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

140,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Kansai

Where They Speak

-
kansai

How Many People Speak

140,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

031
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
日本語

Alternative Names

Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Nihongo

French Name

sanskrit
japonais

German Name

Sanskrit
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Sanskrit speakers
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

2000 B.C.
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Sanskrit
Japanese

Language Position

238
1 120
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Signed Forms

-
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sa
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

san
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

san
jpn

ISO 639 3

san
jpn

ISO 639 6

san
jpn

Glottocode

sans1269
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Ancient
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Sanskrit and Japanese Alphabets

Sanskrit and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sanskrit and Japanese. In Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Sanskrit and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sanskrit and Japanese languages. The Sanskrit phonology consist Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sanskrit greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sanskrit and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sanskrit and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sanskrit and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Sanskrit and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sanskrit are spoken in different Sanskrit Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sanskrit vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sanskrit and Japanese Speaking population

Sanskrit and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sanskrit and Japanese on Sanskrit vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Japanese Language Codes

Sanskrit and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sanskrit and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.