Countries
Indonesia
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
hallo
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
goeie more
  
Please
Not Available
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
jammer
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
javanais
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
450 AD
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic
  
Javanese and Afrikaans Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Javanese and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Afrikaans language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Javanese vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese Alphabets and Afrikaans Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Javanese and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.