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Japanese (日本語)
Japanese is a Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language spoken mainly in Japan. In 2018 there were about 125 million Japanese speakers in Japan.
There are another 1.4 million Japanese speakers in other countries, particularly in the USA (449,000), Brazil (380,000), Hong Kong (127,050), Thailand (70,700), Australia (56,000) and Canada (43,600) [source].
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Standard Japanese, or 標準語 (hyōjungo), is based on the Japanese that was spoken the higher-class areas of Tokyo after the Meji Restoration (1868). It is the language of the media, education and official publications.
There are numerous regional dialects of Japanese which differ from Standard Japanese in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Some are not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Japanese. Japanese dialects spoken in the Ryūkyūan and Amami Islands are influenced by the local Ryūkyūan languages, and are not intelligible to speakers of Japanese, and most are not mutually intelligible with other Ryūkyū
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