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Japanese is a natural and modern language indigenous to Japan. It is an agglutinative language with a subject–object–verb word order and a nominative–accusative alignment. The language follows a time–manner–place structure and includes a desiderative grammatical mood. Its native label is 日本語.
The language is regulated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Agency for Cultural Affairs. It is written using kanji, kana, katakana, and hiragana. There are approximately 128,000,000 speakers, writers, or signers. Japanese is a subclass of Japonic and is distinct from Javanese.
It appears in various Wikimedia projects under the code ja. Specific resources include the Stack Exchange sites japanese.stackexchange.com and ja.stackoverflow.com. The language is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. Films in this language are categorized under Category:Japanese-language films.
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Vinony's link graph records 35,646 inbound references to Japanese, and connects out to Japanese dialect, Chinese characters and Kansai region.
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It sits within the topics Agglutinative languages, ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue and Japanese language.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Japonic
- Country
- Japan
- Image
- Nihongo ichiran 01-converted.svg
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- Commons category
- Japanese language
- topic's main category
- Category:Japanese language
- linguistic typology
- pro-drop language
- language regulatory body
- Agency for Cultural Affairs
- native label
- 日本語
- Stack Exchange tag
- tex.stackexchange.com/tags/japanese
- has grammatical mood
- desiderative
- short name
- жопунӣ
- writing system
- hiragana
- category for films in this language
- Category:Japanese-language films
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Wikimedia language code
- ja
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 128000000
- indigenous to
- Japan
- topic has template
- Template:Japanese language
- different from
- Javanese
- Stack Exchange site URL
- japanese.stackexchange.com
- has tense
- past tense
- P11012
- Roio del Sangro
- entry in abbreviations table
- яп.
- has grammatical case
- instrumental case
- hashtag
- japanese
- does not have characteristic
- agreement
- P8168
- Late Jurassic
- P13311
- La Vall de Boí
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- female form of label
- la langue japonaise
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C123789
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu, Austronesian, Koreanic, and the now discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Japanese” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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