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Javanese vs Nepali


Nepali vs Javanese


Countries

Countries
Indonesia  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Indonesia  
Nepal  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname  
People's Republic of China  

Regulated By
Not Available  
Language Academy of Nepal  

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.
  
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  

Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages  
Hindi  

Derived From
Not Available  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
12  
9

How Many Consonants
21  
11
36  
26

Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks  
10
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Halo  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

Thank You
matur nuwun  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  

How Are You?
piye kabare?  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  

Good Night
wengi sing apik  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  

Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  

Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang  
Good afternoon  

Good Morning
Sugeng énjing  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  

Please
Not Available  
कृपया  

Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang  
नमस्ते (namaste)  

I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  

Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Pekalongan  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
790,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Cirebon  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
India, Nepal  

Dialect 3
Arekan  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Nepal  

Total No. Of Dialects
16  
15
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
82.00 million  
19
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
1.25 %  
13
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
76.00 million  
13
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
5.00 million  
29

Native Name
basa Jawa  
नेपाली (nēpālī)  

Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  

French Name
javanais  
népalais  

German Name
Javanisch  
Nepali  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  

History

Origin
450 AD  
19 BC  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Indonesian  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Not Available  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
Javanese  
Nepali  

Language Position
11  
10
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
jv  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
jav  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
jav  
nep  

ISO 639 3
jav  
npi  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
java1253  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
No data available  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Agglutinative  

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Javanese and Nepali Language History

Comparison of Javanese vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of Javanese and Nepali language. History of Javanese language states that this language originated in 450 AD whereas history of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Javanese and Nepali Language History.

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Javanese and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Nepali language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Javanese vs Nepali Difficulty

The Javanese vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.

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