1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
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
Not Available
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)
terima kasih
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Apa khabar?
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Selamat Petang
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Selamat tengah hari
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Selamat pagi
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
sila
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
maaf
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Maafkan saya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.001,600,000.00
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
NA3,100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Austronesian 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
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Malaysian 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
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative