one of the world's major languages, ranking ninth in terms of the number of speakers with 125 million. It is primarily spoken throughout the Japanese archipelago; there are also some 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad,...

The Japanese language ranks sixth in number of speakers worldwide after Chinese, English, Russian, Hindi, and Spanish. Most Japanese speakers are located within Japan, although there are also immigrant communities in the Americas and other parts of the...

Official language of Japan, spoken by over 120 million speakers. Its genetic affinity is unclear; a relationship with Korean and the Altaic languages as well as with Malayo-Polynesian is often suggested. Ryukyu, the language of Okinawa, is closely...

Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (&see; Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread....

Japanese (æ¥æ¬èª / ã«ã»ã'"ã" , Nihongo (help·info)?) is a language spoken by over 130 million people, in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities around the world. It is an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of...