Japanese translation

Japanese (日本語) is an East Asian language and it belongs to the isolated family of Japonic languages. It amounts around 128 million speakers, especially in Japan where it has a status of the national language. However, no law gives it the status of an official language, in spite of the fact that this is the language of official documents and education. There are two categories of main dialects. One of them is spoken in the East, including the Tokyo area, and the other one in used the West, including the Kyoto area.