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About Javanese Language



Countries

Countries
Indonesia

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
27 9

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks 13

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 8

Dialect 2
Cirebon

Where They Speak
Indonesia

How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00 5

Dialect 3
Arekan

Where They Speak
Indonesia

How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00 6

Total No. Of Dialects
16 15

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
82.00 million 19

Speaking Population
1.25 % 14

Native Speakers
76.00 million 13

Second Language Speakers
82.00 million 12

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
11 10

Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
jv

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

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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.

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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.

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