Countries
Indonesia
India, Nepal
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 in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Doteli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Arekan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Javanese
Nepali
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
java1253
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative
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.