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
-
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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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)
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?
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
👆🏻
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)
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
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