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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
17
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
Japan
Germany
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Council for German Orthography
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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
9926
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
510
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
149
Persian
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Kana
Latin
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
56
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks30 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
hallo
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Danke
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
bitte
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Verzeihung
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Tschüs
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Sanuki
Swiss German
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
Switzerland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.004,500,000.00
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hakata
Swabian German
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Germany
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kansai
Texas German
4.3.1 Where They Speak
kansai
Texas
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000.00
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
3128
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million229.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.90 %1.39 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million101.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
日本語
Deutsch
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
japonais
allemand
5.3.5 German Name
Japanisch
Deutsch
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Germans
6 History
6.1 Origin
1185
6th Century AD
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Western
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
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
89
Chinese
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed German
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ja
de
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
jpn
deu
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
jpn
ger
7.3 ISO 639 3
jpn
deu
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
7.5 Glottocode
nucl1643
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic