Countries
Countries
Indonesia
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Thailand
Regulated By
Not Available
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Halo
Hai
Thank You
matur nuwun
terima kasih
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Selamat pagi
Please
-9999
sila
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
maaf
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Maafkan saya
Dialects
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
NA1,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Pekal
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Musi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
NA3,100,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1624
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %1.16 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NA98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Not Available
French Name
javanais
malais
German Name
Javanisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Not Available
History
Origin
450 AD
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Javanese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
1154
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
jv
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
msa
ISO 639 2/B
jav
may
ISO 639 3
jav
zsm
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
java1253
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative