Home›Eurasian Language Families›Region›JapanBrowse ByJapanRegion names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.JapanComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)JapanFilter Results4 entriesMacro-areaAllJaponic and Koreanic (3)Sign Languages (1)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllSouthern Ryukyuan languages (1)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (1)592 to 23,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (1)Classification StatusAllEstablished (2)Number of LanguagesAll2 (1)6 to 15 (1)In GroupAllJaponic and Koreanic (3)Sign Languages (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 4Amami Ōshima languageJapanJapanese Sign Language familyJapanMacro-Yaeyama languagesJapanRyukyuanJapanComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.