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Language Family and Writing System | |||
Writing System
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Latin | Japanese (four Scripts) | Cyrillic |
Script(s) Used
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Italiano | (nihongo) | (russkij Jazyk) |
Family
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Indo-european | Japonic | Indo-european |
Subgroup
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Italic | Japanese | Balto-slavic |
3 Letter Code
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Ita | Jpn | Rus |
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Number of Speakers | |||
Number of Native speakers (millions)
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59 million |
125 million |
170 million |
Native Speakers as % of World
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1.3 % |
2.7 % |
4 % |
Total Number of Speakers (millions)
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62 million |
130 million |
250 million |
Total Speakers as % of World
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0.8 % |
1.7 % |
3.3 % |
Language Systems | |||
Noun declensions
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None | None | Six Cases |
Sequence
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Svo | Sov | Svo |
Tonal
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No | No | No |
Agglutinative language
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No | Yes | No |
Geographic Distribution | |||
Official language in
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Abkhazia Belarus Croatia Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Malta Palau Russia San Marino Slovenia South Ossetia Switzerland Tajikistan Transnistria Vatican City |
Abkhazia Belarus Croatia Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Malta Palau Russia San Marino Slovenia South Ossetia Switzerland Tajikistan Transnistria Vatican City |
Abkhazia Belarus Croatia Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Malta Palau Russia San Marino Slovenia South Ossetia Switzerland Tajikistan Transnistria Vatican City |
Official Language of United Nations
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No | No | Yes |
Countries Spoken In
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Italy, Vatican City, San Marino, Switzerland, Malta, Croatia, Slovenia, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Monaco, France | Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Palau | Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Norway, United States, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Mongolia |
No. of Countries Spoken In
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12 |
4 |
22 |
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