Hindi is spoken by more than 691 million people worldwide, making it the fourth most spoken language in the world after Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and English. It is an official language of India, primarily spoken in northern and central regions, but also in other parts of the country and by the Indian diaspora across the globe.
Japanese, on the other hand, is spoken by over 128 million people worldwide. It is also spoken in several other countries, particularly in areas where there are significant Japanese communities. These include the United States, Brazil, Canada, Peru, Argentina, Australia, Mexico, and the Philippines, among others. Additionally, Japanese is also taught as a foreign language in many countries around the world.
Japanese and Hindi are two distinct languages. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language family and is an East Asian language, while Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian subcontinent.
When it comes to grammar, Japanese is a subject-object-verb language, while Hindi follows a subject-object-verb sentence structure.
Additionally, the writing systems used by the two languages are also different. Japanese uses a combination of three script: Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana, while Hindi uses the Devanagari script, a syllabic alphabet system.
Despite these differences, both languages have some similarities as well. For instance, both languages use honorifics to show respect when addressing elders. In Japanese, the honorific are expressed through the use of different suffixes and verb form, while in Hindi the honorific "ji" (जी) is added.For example, instead of calling someone "Tanaka" in Japanese, they use "Tanaka-san" to show respect, and in Hindi, instead of "Sambhu," it use "Sambhu-ji".
Additionally, apart from their respective languages, Indian and Japanese cultures exhibit numerous similarities. They both hold great reverence for tradition and history, and give considerable importance to family values and hierarchy.