1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0030,000.00
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
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
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]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Russians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Russian
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
Fusional, Synthetic