Concept information
Preferred term
Japanese
Definition
- Japanese is an East Asian language spoken primarily in Japan. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, whose relation to other language groups is debated. Japanese has no genetic 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 (or moraic) 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.
Identifier
- JPN
Notation
- JA
- ja
- jpn
In other languages
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японски
Bulgarian
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japanski
Croatian
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japonština
Czech
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japansk
Danish
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Japans
Dutch
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jaapani keel
Estonian
-
japani
Finnish
-
japonais
French
-
Japanisch
German
-
ιαπωνικά
Greek
-
japán
Hungarian
-
japanska
Icelandic
-
Seapáinis
Irish
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giapponese
Italian
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nihongo
Japanese
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日本語
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japāņu valoda
Latvian
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japonų kalba
Lithuanian
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Јапонски
Macedonian
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Ġappuniż
Maltese
-
japansk
Norwegian
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japoński
Polish
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japonês
Portuguese
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japoneză
Romanian
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японский
Russian
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Јапански
Serbian
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japanski
Serbo-Croatian
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japončina
Slovak
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japonščina
Slovenian
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japonés
Spanish
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japanska
Swedish
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japonca
Turkish
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японська мова
Ukrainian
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japanšćina
Upper Sorbian
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/JPN
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