About Javanese Language | Javanese | Alphabets in Javanese

Countries

Indonesia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Indonesia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname

Regulated By

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.

Similar To

Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 9 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 11 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic, Javanese, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks

Rank: 13 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Halo

Thank You

matur nuwun

How Are You?

piye kabare?

Good Night

wengi sing apik

Good Evening

Sugeng sọnten

Good Afternoon

Sugeng siang

Good Morning

Sugeng énjing

Please

matur nuwun

Sorry

Nyuwun pangapunten

Bye

Kepanggih malih benjang

I Love You

Kula tresna panjengan

Excuse Me

Nuwun séwu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Pekalongan

Where They Speak

Indonesia

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.00

Rank: 8 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Cirebon

Where They Speak

Indonesia

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.00

Rank: 5 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Arekan

Where They Speak

Indonesia

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.00

Rank: 6 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 15 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

82.00 million

Rank: 19 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.25 %

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

76.00 million

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

82.00 million

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

basa Jawa

Alternative Names

Djawa, Jawa

French Name

javanais

German Name

Javanisch

Pronunciation

[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]

Ethnicity

Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)

History

Origin

450 AD

Language Family

Austronesian Family

Subgroup

Indonesian

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Javanese

Language Position

Rank: 10 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Javanese Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jav

ISO 639 2/B

jav

ISO 639 3

jav

ISO 639 6

jav

Glottocode

java1253

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Javanese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Javanese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Javanese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Javanese. Javanese phonology gives Javanese vowels and Javanese consonants. There are 6 vowels and 21 consonants in Javanese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Javanese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Javanese language is given in detail in this section.

All Javanese countries

Want to explore all Javanese countries? About Javanese language serves you with all Javanese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Javanese as official language are called as Javanese countries.

Countries that use Javanese as their National Language are: Indonesia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Javanese as second language are: Javanese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Javanese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Javanese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Javanese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Javanese language.Learn Javanese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Halo
Thank you: matur nuwun
Good Morning: Sugeng énjing
Good Evening: Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon: Sugeng siang

All Javanese Language Codes

Get to know all Javanese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Javanese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.