Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
Halo
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
sila
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
malais
  
javanais
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Malaysian and Javanese Speaking population
Malaysian and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malaysian and Javanese on Malaysian vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Malaysian and Javanese Language Codes
Malaysian and Javanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malaysian and Javanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.