Japanese leid

Japanese
日本語 Nihongo
"Nihongo" ("Japanese") in Japanese script
Pronunciation	/nihoɴɡo/: [ɲ̟ihõŋɡo]
Native tae	Japan
Ethnicity	Japanese (Yamato)
Native speakers	~128 mulȝeon (2020)[1]
Leid faimily	Japonic Japanese
Early forms	Old Japanese Early Middle Japanese Late Middle Japanese Early Modern Japanese
Writin seestem	Mixed scripts of Kanji (Chinese character) and Kana (Hiragana, Katakana) Japanese Braille
Signed forms	Signed Japanese
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Japan (de facto)  Palau  ∟Template:Kintra data Angaur
Recognised minority leid in	Palau  ∟Template:Kintra data Angaur
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ja
ISO 639-2	jpn
ISO 639-3	jpn
Glottolog	nucl1643  leain oot Hachijo[2]
Linguasphere	45-CAA-a
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Japanese (日本語 "Nihon-go" or "Nippon-go" in Japanese) is the leid spak on the island kintra o Japan, in Eastren Asie. The leid is yaised by up aboot 128 million fowk. Japanese belongs tae the Japonic ilk, sic an sae wae Ryukyuan. In maugre o ettle, thaurs no definitive link wae onny ither language ilks. Thae proposit include Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, an the noo believt discreditit Altaic. No ane o thir theories hiv gained traction.

Japanese is an Agglutinative leid, wae five monophthong vouel soonds. It kythes Gemination an a wird can be changefu by the accentit syllable (Pitch-accent)

Wird order in Japanese is for ordinar Subject-Object-Verb, hou-and-ither particles can be uised tae tirl sentences orders, an add heartit virr tae a thocht as weel. Benon that, Japanese kythes a pernicketie system o honorifics an siclike mensie gab.

In Japanese, Japan is cried Nihon (日本), an the Japanese leid is cried Nihongo (日本語) (whaur -go means leid). Whiles the wirds Nippon and Nippongo is uised an aw; these wirds is thocht o as mair nationalist the nou, while Nihon is a mair neutral wird.

1. ↑ "Världens 100 största språk 2010" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2010), in Nationalencyklopedin
2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Japanese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.