Japanese (日本語, Nihongo ()) is an East Asian language spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language.Japanese belongs to the Japonic (i.e. Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, and its classification with other language families is unclear. Linguists have tried grouping the …

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