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Name:
Japanese
Alternate Name:
Japanisch
Spoken in:
Mongolia, Mexico, USA, Belize, Japan, American Samoa, Australia, Paraguay, Northern Mariana Islands, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, Brazil, Canada, Micronesia, United Kingdom, Guam, Panama, Palau, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Dominican Republic
Number of speakers:
121,000,000 in Japan (1985). Population total all countries: 122,080,100
(Ethnologue)
Code:
jpn
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Japanese
Parent Language:
Old Japanese (ojp)
Child Dialect Groups:
Eastern Japanese (jpn-eas)
Western Japanese (jpn-wes)
Kyūshū (jpn-kyu)
Child Dialect:
Hachijō (jpn-hac)
Map of Japanese
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