Countries
Indonesia
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Habari
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
Not Available
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
pole
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
bye
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
javanais
  
swahili
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
450 AD
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Swahili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Javanese and Swahili Speaking population
Javanese and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. 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 Swahili on Javanese vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Javanese and Swahili Language Codes
Javanese and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Javanese and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.