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 rōmaji, (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 kigō.

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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