Countries
Indonesia
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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English-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Hello
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
Good Morning
  
Please
Not Available
  
Please
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Sorry
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
Bye
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
1,200.00 million
  
1
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Not Available
  
French Name
javanais
  
anglais
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Not Available
  
Origin
450 AD
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Standard English
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic