ja
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ja
The table below provides technical details for the Japanese language, designated by the ja
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Japanese belongs to the Japonic language family. It is the de facto official language of Japan. Also, it is used in some parts of Palau. Japanese is written using a mix of Kanji (Chinese characters) and Kana scripts (Hiragana and Katakana). It is estimated that there are more than 120 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
120M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Japanese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
ja-JP
– Japanese (Japan)
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