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Javanese and Nepali


Nepali and Javanese


Countries

Countries
Indonesia  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Indonesia  
Nepal  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname  
People's Republic of China  

Regulated By
Not Available  
Language Academy of Nepal  

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.
  
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  

Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages  
Hindi  

Derived From
Not Available  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
12  
9

How Many Consonants
21  
11
36  
26

Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks  
10
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Halo  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
matur nuwun  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
piye kabare?  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
wengi sing apik  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
Sugeng énjing  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
Not Available  
कृपया  

Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Pekalongan  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
790,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Cirebon  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
India, Nepal  

Dialect 3
Arekan  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Nepal  

Total No. Of Dialects
16  
15
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
82.00 million  
19
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
1.25 %  
13
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
76.00 million  
13
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
5.00 million  
29

Native Name
basa Jawa  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
javanais  
népalais  

German Name
Javanisch  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
450 AD  
19 BC  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Indonesian  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Not Available  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Javanese  
Nepali  

Language Position
11  
10
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
jv  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
jav  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
jav  
nep  

ISO 639 3
jav  
npi  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
java1253  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
No data available  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Agglutinative  

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All Javanese and Nepali 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 Nepali dialects. Various dialects of Javanese and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Javanese are spoken in different Javanese Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Javanese vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan, Cirebon. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Javanese and Nepali Speaking population

Javanese and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Javanese and Nepali on Javanese vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Javanese and Nepali Language Codes

Javanese and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Javanese and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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