Countries
Japan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Japan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Palau
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Korean Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
آسف
  
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Sanuki
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Kagawa
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hakata
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Kansai
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
kansai
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
128.00 million
  
9
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
日本語
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
japonais
  
arabe
  
German Name
Japanisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1185
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Japonic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Japanese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ja
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
jpn
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1643
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic