Countries
Indonesia
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
indonésien
  
javanais
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
7th Century
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Indonesian and Javanese Speaking population
Indonesian and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Indonesian and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Indonesian and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Indonesian and Javanese on Indonesian vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Indonesian and Javanese Language Codes
Indonesian and Javanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Indonesian and Javanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.