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Bookmark or Share- Japanese language - WikipediaJapanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.
- Japanese language - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Japanese language (Japanese: 日本語, romanized: Nihongo) is the official language of Japan, in East Asia. Japanese belongs to the Japonic language family, which also includes the endangered Ryukyuan languages. One theory says Japanese and Korean are related, but most linguists no longer think so.
- JAPANESE LANGUAGEAs of 2019, Japan's population stood at about 126.14 million, and linguistically it is a nearly homogenous nation and most of the population using the same language. This means that the Japanese language is the ninth most spoken language in the world. However, the language is spoken in scarcely any region outside Japan.
- Japanese language and script - OmniglotJapanese is a Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language spoken mainly in Japan. In 2018 there were about 125 million Japanese speakers in Japan. There are another 1.4 million Japanese speakers in other countries, particularly in the USA (449,000), Brazil (380,000), Hong Kong (127,050), Thailand (70,700), Australia (56,000) and Canada (43,600 ...
- Japanese Language - japan-guide.comThe Japanese writing system consists of three different character sets: kanji (thousands of Chinese characters), and hiragana and katakana (two syllabaries of 46 characters each; together called kana).
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