ja
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ja
Technical information about ja
language code (Japanese) is available below.
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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