Countries
India
  
Japan
  
National Language
India
  
Japan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Pacific
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Palau
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Old German Language
  
Korean Language
  
Derived From
Prakrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Hakata
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Fukuoka
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Kansai
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
kansai
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
14
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
14.10 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
9
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
日本語
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
sanskrit
  
japonais
  
German Name
Sanskrit
  
Japanisch
  
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Origin
2000 B.C.
  
1185
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Japonic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
  
Japanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sa
  
ja
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
san
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 2/B
san
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 3
san
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sans1269
  
nucl1643
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
45-CAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Ancient
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Sanskrit and Japanese Speaking population
Sanskrit and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sanskrit and Japanese on Sanskrit vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sanskrit and Japanese Language Codes
Sanskrit and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sanskrit and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.