Japanese

Japanese is a language spoken by over 140 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities around the world. It belongs to the Japonic Language family. Japanese is written with a mixture of hiragana and katakana (syllabic scripts), plus kanji(Chinese characters). Japanese texts may also include r�?maji, (Roman letters), the standard way of writing Japanese with the Latin alphabet, eimoji (English script), non-Japanese words written in their own script and various symbols known as kig�?.

Map of Japanese language speakers.

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Basic stats

Total speakers: 130 million

Main Countries: Japan (majority), Brazil(~1.5 million), Singapore, United States (~1.2 million. esp. Hawaii), Peru, Australia, Taiwan, Philippines, Guam,Papua New Guinea, Guadalcanal, Palau

ISO 639-3 Code: jpn

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