Cantonese and Javanese
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Indonesia
National Language
China, Guangdong
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
piye kabare?
Good Night
晚安
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
晚上好
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
下午好
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
早上好
Sugeng énjing
Sorry
遗憾
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
再见
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
我爱你
Kula tresna panjengan
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Indonesia
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Arekan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
Not Available
javanais
German Name
Not Available
Javanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Not Available
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
17th century
450 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indonesian
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Javanese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
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Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
jv
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
jav
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
jav
ISO 639 3
No data available
jav
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
cant1236
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
All Cantonese and Javanese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Javanese dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Javanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Javanese Dialects are spoken in different Javanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Javanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan , Cirebon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Javanese Speaking population
Cantonese and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Javanese on Cantonese vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Javanese Language Codes
Cantonese and Javanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Javanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.