Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
Please
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
Bye
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
anglais
  
javanais
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative