Harmonization of the Japanese word yamate, meaning: don't (ah), stop, etc.

The script, the way it is written, and the way it is represented on books (paper, etc.) is called Japanese, and it is a language spoken mainly by people on and in the Japanese archipelago. There are no precise statistics on the number of Japanese speakers, but counting the population in Japan and the number of people of Japanese descent living outside Japan, there are more than 130 million Japanese speakers.

Almost all Japanese citizens born and raised in Japan speak Japanese as their mother tongue. In addition, for the deaf, Japanese sign language exists that corresponds to the Japanese grammar and phonetic system.

Use of Japanese

Japanese is spoken throughout the country (mostly in the Ryukyu region, with Ryukyu being spoken by aboriginal people; Japan does not recognize Ryukyu as an independent language).

Japanese is widely used around the world, and because of the influence of the Japanese animation industry in the world, it has a great influence in the world even though it is not a working language of the United Nations. Especially for ACG-related items, Japanese is almost the only language used.

Japanese is spoken in Russia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Oceania, the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and the United Kingdom in Europe.

Japanese is spoken by 99 million Internet users, the fourth largest number in the world. There are 127 million native speakers of Japanese and 128,204,860 speakers globally, ranking 9th out of 20 countries, while the number of Internet users has risen five places.

Japan is not the only country that has adopted Japanese as a lingua franca, Palau's Onol State is also adopting Japanese as a lingua franca as Japan ruled Palau from 1914 to 1945 and Japanese language instruction was used during that period.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Japanese Language