Countries
Indonesia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2117
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
hallo
Thank You
matur nuwun
Dankie
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
wengi sing apik
goeie nag
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
goeie more
Please
matur nuwun
asseblief
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
jammer
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Totsiens
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Namibia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
163
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Cape Dutch
French Name
javanais
afrikaans
German Name
Javanisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Afrikaners
Origin
450 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
1123
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
afr
ISO 639 2/B
jav
afr
ISO 639 3
jav
afr
ISO 639 6
jav
afrs
Glottocode
java1253
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic