Japanese
language spoken in East Asia
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Summary
Japanese is a natural language[1]. Japanese ranks in the top 0.55% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (45,368 views/month, #4 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Japanese people[3]
- Country: Japan[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5], spoken language[6]
- Subclass of: Japonic[7]
- Writing system: kanji[8], kana[9], katakana[10], hiragana[11]
- Commons category: Japanese language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: ja[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Japanese language[14]
- Language regulatory body: Kokugo Shingikai[15], Council for Cultural Affairs[16], Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology[17], Agency for Cultural Affairs[18]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 128,000,000[19]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[22], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[25], New International Encyclopedia[26]
- Topic has template: Template:Japanese language[27]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://languagelearning.stackexchange.com/tags/japanese[28], https://anime.stackexchange.com/tags/japanese-language[29], https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/japanese[30], https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/japanese[31], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/japanese[32]
- Native label: 日本語[33]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C123789[34]
- Short name: японский[35], японська[36], yaponca[37], жопунӣ[38], ҷопонӣ[39], япойнаг[40]
- Different from: Javanese[41]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[42]
- Indigenous to: Japan[43]
- Female form of label: la langue japonaise[44]
Why It Matters
Japanese has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] Japanese is known by 115 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]
Japanese has been cited as an influence by English[47], a natural language[48], in American Samoa[49]; Indonesian[50], a language[51], in Indonesia[52]; Singlish[53], a creole[54], in Singapore[55]; and Globasa[56], an international auxiliary language[57], founded in 2019[58].
FAQs
Who did Japanese influence?
Japanese has been cited as an influence by English[47], Indonesian[50], Singlish[53], and Globasa[56].