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Japanese has 126 million native speakers, making it the ninth most spoken language in the world. It’s spoken mainly in the north east Asian Nation of Japan and also to a limited extent in emigrant communities and among some elderly people living in Japan and former colonies like Korea and Taiwan. Japanese belongs to the Japonic language family, which also includes the endangered RyuKyun languages of Okinawa and Amami Island. As a professional translation agency, Languages in Motion offers high quality Japanese translation services and interpretation from Japanese to English and vice versa, as well as many other Japanese language combinations, please contact us today to get started.
Japanese was not a written language in its early history during the Yayoi period. During the 3rd century the Yamato state in Japan established relations with China, and in the next 600 years would be a period of heavy Chinese influence. Since Japanese had no written form, classical Chinese became the first literary language used by the elite. Later, Chinese characters began being adopted to write Japanese.
The early history of the Japanese language and the relationship to other languages is unknown. There are theories that the Japanese and Korean languages share a common ancestor and there are theories that Japanese and Korean are part of a wider language family called the Altaic language family. This theory is highly debated and not generally accepted.
Standard Japanese is the most used version of the language today, and is based on the dialect of Tokyo. There are also numerous unique colorful regional and local dialects. Like the distinctive dialect of the Kansai region, which other Japanese people often associate with comedy. There are other dialects such as Tohoku, Okinawa, and many more. Almost everywhere you go in Japan there is a distinctive local dialect, and these are more close to Standard Chinese than they were in the past.
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