Countries
Indonesia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Not Available
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
javanais
  
allemand
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Germans
  
Origin
450 AD
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Javanese and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and German language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs German Difficulty
The Javanese vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.