1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Japan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
Kana
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Sanuki
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
Rank: 28 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hakata
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Fukuoka
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kansai
4.3.1 Where They Speak
kansai
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.90 %
Rank: 10 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million
Rank: 9 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
日本語
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
japonais
5.3.5 German Name
Japanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
1185
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ja
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
jpn
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
jpn
7.3 ISO 639 3
jpn
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nucl1643
7.6 Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic