Countries
India
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
India
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
- 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
Bengali Language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
76.00 million
  
13
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
javanais
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
15
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Gujarati 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 Gujarati and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Gujarati and Javanese language. Gujarati word for "Hello" is નમસ્તે (namaste) or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Gujarati Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Gujarati vs Javanese Difficulty
The Gujarati vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Gujarati 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 Gujarati and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Gujarati and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Gujarati is 18 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.