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Languages of Japan

The Linguasphere Register records 5 entries for Japan, spread across 3 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

5Register entries
3Sectors present
4Zones
0Language entries

4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 7= SINO-INDIAN

Register entries recorded in Japan

CodeEntryLevelNote
44=CENTRAL-EURASIAZoneCovers the "Turkic + Manchurian" or "Altaic" reference area and hypothesis, part of the "wider Altaic" hypothesis (with …
45=EAST-EURASIAZoneCovers the "East-Asia" reference area, composed of sets not covered in any phylozone, part of the "wider Altaic …
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
79=SINITICZoneCovers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity.

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.