1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Japan
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
hyvää yötä
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
haluta
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Anteeksi
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Anteeksi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Sanuki
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈsuomi]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Finno-Ugric
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Finnish
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
45-CAA-a
No data available
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
Agglutinative, Synthetic