Language code: ja

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ja

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

ISO code

ja

Language

Official

Japanese

Native

日本語

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

120M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Japanese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ja-JP Japanese (Japan)

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