1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Japan
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
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, 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
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
αντίο (antío)
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.002,800.00
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
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
japonais
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[eliniˈka]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Greek Sign Language
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-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic