Country Info

Japan Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 125,186,488 people (99% of Japan) that can read or write at least one language.

3 Writing Systems used in Japan

Japanese (Japanese)

ja-jpan
language code
120,128,450
people

Central Okinawan (Katakana)

ryu-kana
language code
973,672
people

Korean (Korean)

ko-kore
language code
657,545
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR