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