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The oral languages spoken by the native peoples of the insular country of Japan at present and during recorded history belong to either of two primary phyla of human language: Japonic languages. Japanese language (See also Japanese dialects) Hachijō Japanese; Eastern Japanese; Western Japanese; Kyūshū Japanese; Ryūkyūan languages
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]
Japanese – 日本語, 日本語. National language in: Japan; Jarawa – Aongəŋ Official language in: Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Javanese – ꦧꦱꦗꦮ Spoken in: the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Java, New Caledonia, and Suriname; Jeju – 제줏말, 제주말 Spoken in: Jeju Province, South Korea; Jicarilla – Abáachi mizaa
The original language of Japan, or at least the original language of a certain population that was ancestral to a significant portion of the historical and present Japanese nation, was the so-called yamato kotoba (大和言葉 or infrequently 大和詞, i.e. "Yamato words"), which in scholarly contexts is sometimes referred to as wago (和語 ...
Language education in Japan (1 C, 3 P) Language policy in Japan (1 C, 2 P) S. Sign languages of Japan (3 P) Pages in category "Languages of Japan"
(Top) 1 Number of living ... This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue ... Japan: 15 4 19 0.27 129,414,863 ...
Japanese is the de facto national language of Japan, where it is spoken by about 126 million people. The oldest attestation is Old Japanese, which was recorded using Chinese characters in the 7th and 8th centuries. [13] It differed from Modern Japanese in having a simple (C)V syllable structure and avoiding vowel sequences. [14]