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Languages Spoken in Japan

Official: Japanese

Japan has a population of 123.2 million and is home to a small number of language communities, with 3 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. Japanese serves as the official language. Of the languages spoken in Japan, 2 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

123.2M
Population
3
Languages
2
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Languages spoken in Japan

Japanese Official
hiragana, kana
LEXIGO translation services →
95%
CLDR
Central Okinawan
Japanese writing system, Okinawan scripts
0.8%
CLDR
Korean
Hangul, Hanja
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0.5%
CLDR
CIA World Factbook

"Japanese"

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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