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No, Japanese is not an Indo-European language.
The Indo-European languages include most languages traditionally spoken in Europe (except Basque, Hungarian and Finnish), including all those derived from Greek, Latin, or both, and a number of languages in western and southern Asia (including Persian, Urdu and Hindi)
Japanese is not apparently closely related to any language spoken elsewhere, except on nearby islands (Ryukyu Islands). Korean is also argued to be somewhat related to Japanese, and some linguists have hypothesized a more tenuous connection with the Altaic language group (which includes Turkish, most Central Asia languages and Mongolian).
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No, Japanese is not an Indo-European language. It belongs to a completely different language family called the Japonic language family, which is unrelated to the Indo-European languages spoken in Europe, India, and parts of the Middle East.
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