Countries
Indonesia
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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.
  
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
Not Available
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
javanais
  
birman
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
450 AD
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
sout3159
  
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
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Javanese and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Burmese language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs Burmese Difficulty
The Javanese vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.