Countries
Indonesia
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
National Language
Indonesia
Portugal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Regulated By
Not Available
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Spanish and Galician Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
matur nuwun
obrigado
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Como você está?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
boa noite
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
boa Noite
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
boa Tarde
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
bom Dia
Please
Not Available
Por Favor
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
pesaroso
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
tchau
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Eu te amo
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
desculpe me
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Brazilian Portuguese
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Brazil
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Cirebon
European Portuguese
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Portugal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Arekan
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Daman and Diu
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
basa Jawa
Português
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Português
French Name
javanais
portugais
German Name
Javanisch
Portugiesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Portuguese people or portugueses
Origin
450 AD
3rd Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Romance
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
Javanese
Portuguese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Portuguese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
java1253
port1283
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
Javanese and Portuguese 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 Portuguese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Portuguese language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Portuguese word for "Thank You" is obrigado. Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Portuguese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs Portuguese Difficulty
The Javanese vs Portuguese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese Alphabets and Portuguese 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 Portuguese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Portuguese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Portuguese time required is 24 weeks.