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4 days ago · Japanese language, a language isolate (i.e., a language unrelated to any other language) and one of the world’s major languages, with more than 127 million speakers in the early 21st century.
- Masayoshi Shibatani
1. Japanese and Ryūkūan. These two Japanese languages are relatively closely related to four or five Ryūkyūan languages, which are spoken in the Ryūkyūan Archipelago, which consists of a chain of islands much smaller than the main Japanese islands, stretching roughly from Southern Kyūshū to Taiwan.
Dec 1, 2020 · In every language but Japanese, wordforms in the artificial lexica (shown by violin plots) have more homophones (Mean Number of Homophones) on average than wordforms in the real lexica (shown by orange dots).
- Sean Trott, Benjamin Bergen
- 2020
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.
Sep 27, 2024 · There is no single dominant religion in Japan. Several religious and quasi-religious systems, including Shinto, Confucianism, and Buddhism, exist side by side, and plurality of religious affiliation is common in Japan.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 13, 1999 · Japanese is written using two systems of orthography, Chinese characters and syllabaries. Chinese characters, or kanji, were brought in from China starting about 1,500 years ago. Prior to their introduction, Japanese was strictly a spoken language.
Studies of Japanese have showed that Japanese contains Altaic and Austronesian elements: the phonological system is closer to that of Austronesian languages (Alpatov 1998), but the archaic lexicon seems to have more Altaic elements (ibid.).
