1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Kana
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Fukuoka
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
kansai
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
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
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
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6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating