Japanese is spoken by over 125 million people around the world.
Japanese
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Classification
Japonic
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Official language
Japan
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Speakers
122 million
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Script
Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji (Chinese character) writing systems.
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Text direction
Left-to-right
Japanese
Japanese is often called a language isolate as it has no genetic relationship with other languages, although it does borrow heavily from Chinese.
Japanese is written with three writing systems that are used simultaneously, namely kanji, hiragana and katakana. Whereas kanji are characters of Chinese origin, hiragana is used to write words that can’t be expressed with kanji and katakana is used primarily to write foreign words.
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Interesting fact
Colour idioms are common in Japanese: an outright lie would be called makka na uso (deep red) and someone suffering would be said to be aoiki toiki, or “sighing with blue breath”.
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