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Countries

Countries

Wales
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Wales
Japan

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom
Palau

Regulated By

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

Interesting Facts

  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  • 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

English Language
Korean Language

Derived From

British Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2999
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2114
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

45
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Helô
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Diolch
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Nos da
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Noswaith dda
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

P'nawn da
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Bore da
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

os gwelwch yn dda
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Hwyl
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Argentina
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

38,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg
Hakata

Where They Speak

Gwynedd
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

700,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg
Kansai

Where They Speak

Powys
kansai

How Many People Speak

700,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

831
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.40 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
日本語

Alternative Names

Cymraeg
Nihongo

French Name

gallois
japonais

German Name

Kymrisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

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

Ethnicity

Welsh people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

9th Century
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Celtic
-

Branch

Brythonic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Welsh
Japanese

Language Position

318
1 120
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Signed Forms

Welsh Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

cy
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cym
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

wel
jpn

ISO 639 3

cym
jpn

ISO 639 6

cym
jpn

Glottocode

wels1247
nucl1643

Linguasphere

50-ABA
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Welsh and Japanese Alphabets

Welsh and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Welsh and Japanese. In Welsh Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Welsh and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Welsh and Japanese languages. The Welsh phonology consist Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Welsh greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Welsh and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Welsh 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 Welsh and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Welsh and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Welsh are spoken in different Welsh Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Welsh vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Welsh dialects include: Patagonian Welsh, Y Wyndodeg. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Welsh and Japanese Speaking population

Welsh and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Welsh and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Welsh and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 % 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 Welsh and Japanese on Welsh vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Welsh and Japanese Language Codes

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