Countries
India, Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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
Hindi
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
कृपया
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
népalais
  
javanais
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
19 BC
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Nepali 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 Nepali and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Javanese language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Javanese Difficulty
The Nepali vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.