1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Japan
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
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
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Salama!
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Alina tsara
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Manao ahoana e
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Maraina tsara
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
azafady
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Miala tsiny
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Tiako ianao.
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Azafady
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.005,000,000.00
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
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 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Japanisch
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Malagasy people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Austronesian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
standard Malagasy
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
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
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available