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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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