Countries
Burkina Faso
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
- 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
Dagbani Language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mossi-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
Kia ora
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Laafi bala
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
Ne y yungo
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
ne y zabre
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
gafare
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
gafare
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
Y gafare
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 2
Saremde
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Taolende
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million
  
99+
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Mosse
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
moré
  
javanais
  
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Mossi
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
Not available
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Mossi
  
Javanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mos
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
mos
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
mos
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
moss1236
  
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
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Mossi and Javanese 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 Mossi and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mossi and Javanese language. Mossi word for "Hello" is Kia ora or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Mossi Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mossi vs Javanese Difficulty
The Mossi vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mossi Alphabets and Javanese 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 Mossi and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mossi and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mossi is 30 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.