Javanese and Cantonese
Countries
Indonesia
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Indonesia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Hawaii
Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
How Are You?
piye kabare?
你好吗？
Good Night
wengi sing apik
晚安
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
下午好
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
早上好
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
遗憾
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
再见
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
我爱你
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Indonesia
outside mainland China
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Arekan
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
Native Name
basa Jawa
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
javanais
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German Name
Javanisch
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Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
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Origin
450 AD
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
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Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
jv
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
jav
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ISO 639 2/B
jav
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ISO 639 3
jav
No data available
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
java1253
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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All Javanese and Cantonese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Javanese and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Javanese and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Javanese are spoken in different Javanese Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Javanese vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan, Cirebon. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Javanese and Cantonese Speaking population
Javanese and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Javanese and Cantonese on Javanese vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Javanese and Cantonese Language Codes
Javanese and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Javanese and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.
