Languages of Japan

language spoken in East Asia

language(s) spoken by Ainu ethnic groups in Hokkaido, Kuril and Sakhalin

language family

branch of the Min group of Sinitic languages of China

language spoken in Jeju, South Korea

sign language

Japonic dialects of disputed classification

special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education

languages of a geographic region

language

endangered Japonic languages of Okinawa prefecture, Japan

Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan

language family

English-Japanese pidgin language of the Bonin islands

Japanese-based pidgin spoken in the Yokohama area during the late 19th century for communication between Japanese and foreigners

form of the Korean language spoken by the Zainichi (residents of Japan of Korean descent)

Babm () is an international auxiliary language created by the Japanese philosopher (), also known as Fuishiki Okamoto. Okamoto first introduced the language in his 1962 publication The Simplest Universal Auxiliary Language Babm. The language did not achieve widespread adoption, even within the constructed language community, and currently has no known speakers. The language uses the Latin script as a syllabary, and possesses no articles or auxiliary verbs. Each letter marks an entire syllable rather than a single phoneme. Babm adheres to a sound-based rule set, which Okamoto delineates in his

branch of the Southern Ryukyuan languages

English-based pidgin created with inception of jargon of American soldiers in Japan and Korea

simplified form of Japanese for children and foreign language learners