1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Japan
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Australia, France, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Not Available
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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
ありがとう (Arigatō)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
ND
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
ND
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
kansai
Cambodia, Thailand
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 million16.00 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
日本語
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cambodian, Khmer
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Japanisch
Kambodschanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Khmer, Northern Khmer
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
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-Khmer
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Not Available
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