Countries
Indonesia
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2131
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Selam
Thank You
matur nuwun
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
i'ndemin adäru
Please
matur nuwun
i'bakwon
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
aznallehu
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
tschao
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Gondar
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Gondar
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Showa
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
165
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
javanais
amharique
German Name
Javanisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Amharas
Origin
450 AD
13th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Javanese
Amharic
Language Position
1155
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
amh
ISO 639 2/B
jav
amh
ISO 639 3
jav
amh
ISO 639 6
jav
amh
Glottocode
java1253
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional