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日本語

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Japanese language is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic language family, whose relation to other language groups, particularly to Korean and the suggested Altaic language family, is debated. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century. During the Heian period (794–1185), Chinese had a considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw changes in features that brought it closer to the modern language, as well the first appearance of European loanwords. The standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century–mid-19th century). Following the end in 1853 of Japan's self-imposed isolation, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly. English loanwords in particular have become frequent, and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment. Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender, and there are no articles. Verbs are conjugated, primarily tense and voice, but not person. Japanese equivalents of adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has a complex system of honorifics with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned. Japanese has no genealogical relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana . Latin script is used in a limited way, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals, alongside traditional Chinese numerals. Japanese was little studied by non-Japanese before the Japanese economic bubble of the 1980s. Since then, along with the spread of Japanese popular culture, the number of students of Japanese has reached the millions.
Source : DBpedia

Names (more)

[aa] Japanese
[ab] Иапон бызшәа
[af] Japannees
[ak] Gyapan kasa
[am] ጃፓንኛ
[ar] اليابانية
[an] Idioma chaponés
[az] Yapon dili
[bm] zapɔnekan
[be] Японская мова
[bn] জাপানি ভাষা
[bo] ཉི་ཧོང་སྐད།
[bs] Japanski jezik
[br] Japaneg
[bg] Японски език
[ca] Japonès
[cs] Japonština
[ce] Yaponhoyn mott
[cv] Япон чĕлхи
[kw] Japanek
[cy] Japaneg
[da] Japansk
[de] Japanisch
[dv] ޖަޕާނީ
[dz] ཇཱ་པཱ་ནིས་ཁ
[el] Ιαπωνικά
[en] Japanese language
[eo] Japana lingvo
[et] Jaapani keel
[eu] Japoniera
[ee] dzapangbe
[fo] Japanskt mál
[fa] جاپانی
[fi] Japanin kieli
[fr] Japonais
[fy] Japansk
[ff] Saponeere
[gd] Seapanais
[ga] An tSeapáinis
[gl] Lingua xaponesa
[gv] Shapaanish
[gu] જાપાનીઝ
[ha] Japananci
[sh] Japanski jezik
[he] יפנית
[hi] जापानी भाषा
[hr] Japanski jezik
[hu] Japán nyelv
[hy] Ճապոներեն
[ig] Japanese
[io] Japoniana linguo
[ii] ꏝꀪꉙ
[ia] Lingua japonese
[id] Bahasa Jepang
[is] Japanska
[it] Lingua giapponese
[jv] Basa Jepang
[ja] 日本語
[kl] Japanimiusut
[kn] ಜಪಾನಿ ಭಾಷೆ
[ks] جاپٲنۍ
[ka] იაპონური ენა
[kk] Жапон тілі
[km] ជប៉ុន
[ki] Kĩnjabani
[rw] Ikiyapani
[ky] япончо
[ko] 일본어
[ku] Zimanê japonî
[lo] ພາສາຍີ່ປຸ່ນ
[la] Lingua Iaponica
[lv] Japāņu valoda
[li] Japans
[ln] Lizapɔ́
[lt] Japonų kalba
[lb] Japanesch
[lu] Liyapani
[lg] Lujapani
[ml] ജപ്പാനീസ്
[mr] जपानी भाषा
[mk] Јапонски јазик
[mg] Japoney
[mt] Ġappuniż
[mn] Япон хэл
[mi] Reo Hapani
[ms] Bahasa Jepun
[my] ဂျပန်
[nd] isi-Japhani
[ne] जापानी
[nl] Japans
[nn] Japansk
[nb] japansk
[no] Japansk
[oc] Japonés
[or] ଜାପାନୀଜ୍
[om] Afaan Japanii
[os] япойнаг
[pa] ਜਾਪਾਨੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
[pl] Język japoński
[pt] Língua japonesa
[ps] جاپانی
[qu] Nihun simi
[rm] giapunais
[ro] Limba japoneză
[rn] Ikiyapani
[ru] Японский язык
[sg] Zaponëe
[sa] जापानी भाषा
[si] ජපන්
[sk] Japončina
[sl] Japonščina
[se] Japánagiella
[sn] chiJapani
[so] Jabbaaniis
[st] Se-japane
[es] Idioma japonés
[sq] Gjuha japoneze
[sr] Јапански језик
[su] Basa Jepang
[sw] Kijapani
[sv] Japanska
[ty] Reo Tāpōnē
[ta] ஜப்பானிய மொழி
[tt] Yapon tele
[te] జాపనీస్
[tg] Забони ҷопонӣ
[tl] Wikang Hapones
[th] ญี่ปุ่น
[ti] ጃፓንኛ
[to] lea fakasiapani
[tn] Se Japan
[ts] Xi Japani
[tk] Ýapon dili
[tr] Japonca
[ug] ياپون تىلى
[uk] Японська мова
[ur] جاپانی
[vi] Tiếng Nhật
[wa] Djaponès
[xh] Isi-Japanese
[yi] יאפאניש
[yo] Èdè Japaní
[za] Vah Nditbonj
[zh] 日语
[zu] isi-Japanese

Language type : Living

Official language : Japan,

Language resources for Japanese

Open Languages Archives


Japanese Wikipedia
Japanese Wiktionary
Wiktionary - Category:Japanese language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:japonais [fr]

Freelang Dictionary [en]
Dictionnaire Freelang [fr]
Omniglot encyclopedia [en]
Lexilogos Dictionaries [en]
Dictionnaires Lexilogos [fr]
Dictionnaires Lexicool [fr]

Technical notes

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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is ja.

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-1 : ja
ISO 639-2B : jpn
ISO 639-2T : jpn
ISO 639-3 : jpn

Linked Data URIs

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/jpn
http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:jpn
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/ja
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/jpn

More URIs at sameas.org

Sources

Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: jpn

Freebase ISO 639-3 : jpn
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