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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

  • японски

    Bulgarian

  • japanski

    Croatian

  • japonština

    Czech

  • japansk

    Danish

  • Japans

    Dutch

  • jaapani keel

    Estonian

  • japani

    Finnish

  • japonais

    French

  • Japanisch

    German

  • ιαπωνικά

    Greek

  • japán

    Hungarian

  • japanska

    Icelandic

  • Seapáinis

    Irish

  • giapponese

    Italian

  • nihongo

    Japanese

  • 日本語
  • japāņu valoda

    Latvian

  • japonų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Јапонски

    Macedonian

  • Ġappuniż

    Maltese

  • japansk

    Norwegian

  • japoński

    Polish

  • japonês

    Portuguese

  • japoneză

    Romanian

  • японский

    Russian

  • Јапански

    Serbian

  • japanski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • japončina

    Slovak

  • japonščina

    Slovenian

  • japonés

    Spanish

  • japanska

    Swedish

  • japonca

    Turkish

  • японська мова

    Ukrainian

  • japanšćina

    Upper Sorbian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/JPN

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