1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Japan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Japan
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia, Pacific
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Korean Language
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
Thank you
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
How are you?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
I love you
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Fukuoka
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million128.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
400.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
Signed Japanese
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic