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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Indonesia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Indonesia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
  • The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.

1.9 Similar To

Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

27
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Arabic, Javanese, Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Halo

3.2 Thank You

matur nuwun

3.3 How Are You?

piye kabare?

3.4 Good Night

wengi sing apik

3.5 Good Evening

Sugeng sọnten

3.6 Good Afternoon

Sugeng siang

3.7 Good Morning

Sugeng énjing

3.8 Please

Not Available

3.9 Sorry

Nyuwun pangapunten

3.10 Bye

Kepanggih malih benjang

3.11 I Love You

Kula tresna panjengan

3.12 Excuse Me

Nuwun séwu

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Pekalongan

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Cirebon

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Arekan

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

16
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

82.00 million
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

1.25 %
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

76.00 million
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

basa Jawa

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Djawa, Jawa

5.3.4 French Name

javanais

5.3.5 German Name

Javanisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)

6 History

6.1 Origin

450 AD

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indonesian

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Javanese

6.3.3 Language Position

11
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

jv

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

jav

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

jav

7.3 ISO 639 3

jav

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

java1253

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Javanese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Javanese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Javanese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Javanese. Javanese phonology gives Javanese vowels and Javanese consonants. There are 6 vowels and 21 consonants in Javanese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Javanese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Javanese language is given in detail in this section.

All Javanese countries

Want to explore all Javanese countries? About Javanese language serves you with all Javanese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Javanese as official language are called as Javanese countries.

  • Countries that use Javanese as their National Language are: Indonesia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Javanese as second language are: Javanese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Javanese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Javanese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Javanese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Javanese language.Learn Javanese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Halo
  • Thank you: matur nuwun
  • Good Morning: Sugeng énjing
  • Good Evening: Sugeng sọnten
  • Good Afternoon: Sugeng siang

All Javanese Language Codes

Get to know all Javanese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Javanese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.