1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Japan
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Not Available
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)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Good Morning
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Please
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million400.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA400.00 million
0.01
400
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]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European 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
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed English
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
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic