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Javanese and Sinhalese


Sinhalese and Javanese


Countries

Countries
Indonesia  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Indonesia  
Sri Lanka  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Sri Lanka  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Not Available  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)  

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.
  
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  

Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages  
Maldivian Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27  
9
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
18  
15

How Many Consonants
21  
11
36  
26

Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks  
10
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Halo  
හලෝ (halō)  

Thank You
matur nuwun  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)  

How Are You?
piye kabare?  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)  

Good Night
wengi sing apik  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)  

Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)  

Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)  

Good Morning
Sugeng énjing  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)  

Please
Not Available  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)  

Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)  

Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang  
බායි (bāyi)  

I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)  

Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Pekalongan  
Vedda  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Sri Lanka  

Dialect 2
Cirebon  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Arekan  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
16  
15
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
82.00 million  
19
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.25 %  
13
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
76.00 million  
13
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
2.00 million  
34

Native Name
basa Jawa  
සිංහල (sĩhala)  

Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala  

French Name
javanais  
singhalais  

German Name
Javanisch  
Singhalesisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)  
Sinhalese people  

History

Origin
450 AD  
3  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Indonesian  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Not Available  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Sinhalese Prakrit  

Standard Forms
Javanese  
Modern Sinhalese  

Language Position
11  
10
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
jv  
si  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
jav  
sin  

ISO 639 2/B
jav  
sin  

ISO 639 3
jav  
sin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
java1253  
sinh1246  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Fusional  

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All Javanese and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Javanese and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Javanese are spoken in different Javanese Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Javanese vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan, Cirebon. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Javanese and Sinhalese Speaking population

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

Javanese and Sinhalese Language Codes

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

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