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Japanese
Pronunciation
Counter
か国語 • (-ka kokugo)
- Counter for languages.
1940, 小栗虫太郎, 人外魔境 遊魂境, 青空文庫:
- その後、彼とケプナラがイースト・サイドへ出掛けていった。
そこは、二十七か国語が話されるという、人種の坩堝。- Sono go, kare to Kepunara ga Īsuto Saido e dekakete itta.
Soko wa, nijūnana-ka kokugo ga hanasareru to iu, jinshu no rutsubo. - Later, he and Kepunara headed out to the East Side.
It was a crucible of races, where twenty-seven languages were said to be spoken.
Usage notes
Although this counter is very commonly used to count languages, it implicitly carries the assumption that there is a one-to-one relationship between countries and languages. In cases where more precision is required, one can use 言語 (gengo) as a counter or use つ (-tsu) for numbers one to nine and no counter for higher numbers.