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Japanese, also known as Japanese, is the official language of Japan, with 654.38+0.25 billion native speakers and 654.38+0.6% of the world population using Japanese.

The origin of Japanese has been debated endlessly. Japanese in Meiji era classified Japanese as Altaic language family, which has been generally denied. Mo Hulbert and Ohno Jin believe that Japanese belongs to the Dravidian language family.

Nishida Takashi thinks Japanese belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family, Bai Guisi thinks Japanese belongs to Japanese-Koguryo language family, and Leon Angelo serafim thinks Japanese and Ryukyu language can form Japanese language family. There is a hypothesis that Austronesian language family, Zhuang-Dong language family and Japanese language family can form Austronesian-Taiwanese language family, that is, they are all homologous.

In the Tang Dynasty, I invented a pseudonym popular among women, and the official language was classical Chinese, so modern Japanese was greatly influenced by ancient Chinese.

Take Showa 3 1 Dictionary of Chinese Illustrations as an example. In Japanese vocabulary, Japanese accounts for 36.6% and Chinese accounts for 53.6%. In the 39th year of Showa, the National Institute of Japan investigated 90 magazine terms, and found that Japanese accounted for 36.7%, Chinese for 47.5%, and western languages for nearly 10%.

The use of Japanese covers the whole of Japan (most of the Ryukyu area is used, and some indigenous people use Ryukyu language, but Japan does not recognize Ryukyu as an independent language).

Japanese is widely used in the world, because the Japanese animation industry has great influence in the world, although it is not the working language of the United Nations. Especially when it comes to ACG, Japanese is almost the only language.

Japanese is an important language in Russia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Oceania, the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America and Britain in Europe.

99 million Internet users use Japanese, ranking fourth in the world. The number of Japanese native speakers is 6.5438+27 million, and the number of users worldwide is 654.38+028,204,860, ranking ninth among 20 countries, while the number of netizens has increased by five places.