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  2. Japanese language - Wikipedia

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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages ...

  3. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. 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, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so ...

  4. Languages of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Languages of Japan. 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. Along with Japanese, these languages are part of the ...

  5. List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia

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    The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 27th edition of Ethnologue published in 2024. [ 7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese .

  6. Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese language is Japan's de facto national language and the primary written and spoken language of most people in the country. [252] Japanese writing uses kanji ( Chinese characters ) and two sets of kana ( syllabaries based on cursive script and radicals used by kanji), as well as the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals . [ 253 ]

  7. Japonic languages - Wikipedia

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    Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, [1] is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.

  8. Culture of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese is the national and primary language of Japan. The language is a lexically distinct pitch-accent system. Early Japanese is known primarily by its state in the 8th century when the three major works of Old Japanese were compiled. The earliest attestation of the Japanese language was found in a Chinese document from 256 CE.

  9. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.