Japanese (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.

The most widely spoken language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into several dialects with Tokyo dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands.

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and …

The 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.

2024年12月14日 · Japanese language, a language isolate (i.e., a language unrelated to any other language) and one of the world’s major languages, with more than 127 million speakers in the early 21st century.

2024年7月21日 · Japanese is spoken by 130 million people. This makes it the ninth most spoken language by native speakers. Linguists debate over the classification of the Japanese language, and one general theory asserts that Japanese is an isolated language and thus a language family of its own, known as Japonic languages.

The Japanese Wikipedia (Japanese: ウィキペディア日本語版) is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in September 2002. It is the 13th largest edition by article count. [1] As of September 2024, it has over 1,460,000 articles. [2]

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo?, Template:IPA-ja) is spoken as a native language by about 128 million people, primarily Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language.

日本語 （にほんご、にっぽんご [注釈 3]）は、 日本 国内や、 かつての日本領 だった国、そして国外移民や移住者を含む 日本人 同士の間で使用されている 言語。 日本は 法令 によって 公用語 を規定していないが、法令その他の公用文は全て日本語で記述され、各種法令 [注釈 4] において日本語を用いることが規定され、 学校教育 においては「国語」の教科として学習を行うな …

Japanese 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) [source].