Japanese
Historical linguists agree that Japanese is a Japonic language, but do not agree further about the origin of the Japanese language; there are several competing theories. Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has been and it is still sometimes spoken in countries besides Japan.
When Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries were forced to learn Japanese. As a result, there are still many people in these countries who speak Japanese instead of or as well as the local languages. In addition, emigrants from Japan, the majority of whom are found in the United States (notably California and Hawaii), and Brazil also frequently speak Japanese. There is also a small community in Davao, Philippines. Their descendants (known as Nikkei, literally Japanese descendants), however, rarely speak Japanese fluently.
There are estimated to be several million non-Japanese studying the language as well.
Japanese is the only official language of Japan, and Japan is the only country to have Japanese as an official language. There are two forms of the language considered standard: hyojungo or standard Japanese, and kyotsugo or the common language. As government policy has modernized Japanese, many of the distinctions between the two have blurred. Hyojungo is taught in schools and used on television and in official communications.
Atena s.a.s. School of Foreign Languages in Taormina gives you the possibility to prepare for the International Proficiency Certificate for Japanese language.
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