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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Indonesia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Indonesia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

27
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Arabic, Javanese, Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks
Rank: 10 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Halo

3.2 Thank You

matur nuwun

3.3 How Are You?

piye kabare?

3.4 Good Night

wengi sing apik

3.5 Good Evening

Sugeng sọnten

3.6 Good Afternoon

Sugeng siang

3.7 Good Morning

Sugeng énjing

3.8 Please

Not Available

3.9 Sorry

Nyuwun pangapunten

3.10 Bye

Kepanggih malih benjang

3.11 I Love You

Kula tresna panjengan

3.12 Excuse Me

Nuwun séwu

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Pekalongan

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Cirebon

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Arekan

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Indonesia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

16
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

82.00 million
Rank: 19 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

1.25 %
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

76.00 million
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

basa Jawa

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Djawa, Jawa

5.3.4 French Name

javanais

5.3.5 German Name

Javanisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

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

6 History

6.1 Origin

450 AD

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indonesian

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Javanese

6.3.3 Language Position

11
Rank: 10 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

jv

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

jav

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

jav

7.3 ISO 639 3

jav

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

java1253

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Origin of Javanese language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Javanese language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of Javanese language states that it was put to use in 450 AD. The history of Javanese language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Javanese Language History. Javanese has no early forms. Javanese is the standard form of Javanese language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Javanese Language.

Javanese population

Javanese population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Javanese language. Javanese language is spoken by 82.00 million people in the world. Most of the Javanese population lies in the Javanese Speaking Countries. Javanese language is spoken as first language by 76.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Javanese as second language. Get to know Javanese speaking population in detail.

Javanese writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Javanese writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Javanese language. Some languages share common writing systems. Arabic, Javanese, Latin script is used by Javanese language. Learn more about . 

Information about Javanese language

Check out all the information about Javanese language here. You may find it interesting to learn Javanese Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Javanese Speaking Countries, Javanese speaking continents and Javanese Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Javanese countries knowing common Javanese Greetings will help you in communicating with Javanese people.