Countries
Indonesia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2728
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
您好
Thank You
matur nuwun
谢谢
How Are You?
piye kabare?
你好吗？
Good Night
wengi sing apik
晚安
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
下午好
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
早上好
Please
matur nuwun
请
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
遗憾
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
再见
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
我爱你
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
原谅我
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Indonesia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
163
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
javanais
cantonais
German Name
Javanisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Han Chinese
Origin
450 AD
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
111
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
jv
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
yue
ISO 639 2/B
jav
yue
ISO 639 3
jav
No data available
ISO 639 6
jav
yue
Glottocode
java1253
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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