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Japanese

ja · 日本語

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Japanese (ja) is written in the Japanese script and has an estimated 117.6M speakers. It is an official language in Japan. CLDR has 2 locales for it.

Native name日本語
ScriptJapaneseJpan
Speakers117.6Mestimated
Countries3
Locales2
Plural forms1other

Overview

Code
ja
Native name
日本語
Script
Japanese Jpan
Likely region
🇯🇵 Japan
Direction
Left to right
Plural categories
  • other
Ordinal categories
  • other
Locales

Where it is spoken

CountryStatusShare of population
🇯🇵 JapanOfficial95%
🇨🇦 Canada0.27%
🇧🇷 Brazil0.21%

Plural categories

CategoryExamples
other0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, …