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German vs Javanese


Javanese vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland   
Indonesia   

Total No. Of Countries
7   
8
1   
14

National Language
Germany   
Indonesia   

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia   
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname   

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography   
Not Available   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages   
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages   

Derived From
Albanian Languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
27   
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
6   
3

How Many Consonants
9   
1
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Arabic, Javanese, Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks   
9
36 weeks   
10

Greetings

Hello
hallo   
Halo   

Thank You
Danke   
matur nuwun   

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?   
piye kabare?   

Good Night
gute Nacht   
wengi sing apik   

Good Evening
guten Abend   
Sugeng sọnten   

Good Afternoon
guten Tag   
Sugeng siang   

Good Morning
guten Morgen   
Sugeng énjing   

Please
bitte   
Not Available   

Sorry
Verzeihung   
Nyuwun pangapunten   

Bye
Tschüs   
Kepanggih malih benjang   

I Love You
Ich liebe dich   
Kula tresna panjengan   

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung   
Nuwun séwu   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German   
Pekalongan   

Where They Speak
Switzerland   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00   
18
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Swabian German   
Cirebon   

Where They Speak
Germany   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
820,000.00   
26
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Texas German   
Arekan   

Where They Speak
Texas   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
6,000.00   
35
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
28   
23
16   
15

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million   
8
82.00 million   
19

Speaking Population
1.39 %   
12
1.25 %   
13

Native Speakers
101.00 million   
10
76.00 million   
13

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million   
5
Not Available   

Native Name
Deutsch   
basa Jawa   

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco   
Djawa, Jawa   

French Name
allemand   
javanais   

German Name
Deutsch   
Javanisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]   
Not Available   

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

History

Origin
6th Century AD   
450 AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Germanic   
Indonesian   

Branch
Western   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German   
Javanese   

Language Position
9   
9
11   
10

Signed Forms
Signed German   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
de   
jv   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu   
jav   

ISO 639 2/B
ger   
jav   

ISO 639 3
deu   
jav   

ISO 639 6
deus   
Not Available   

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397   
java1253   

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative   

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German and Javanese Language History

Comparison of German vs Javanese language history gives us differences between origin of German and Javanese language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Javanese language states that this language originated in 450 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on German and Javanese Language History.

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German and Javanese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Javanese language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common German Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

German vs Javanese Difficulty

The German vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Javanese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.

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