Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Indonesia
  
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 in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
82.00 million
  
19
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)
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.