1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Spanish and Galician Languages
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
boa noite
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
boa Noite
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
boa Tarde
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Por Favor
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
pesaroso
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Eu te amo
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
desculpe me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Sanuki
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hakata
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kansai
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
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 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million216.00 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]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Portuguese people or portugueses
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
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Portuguese
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
Not Available