Countries
Indonesia
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
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Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2721
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2116
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Hoy
Thank You
matur nuwun
Salamat
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Maayong Buntag
Please
matur nuwun
Palihug
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Ikasubo ko
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Babay
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Boholano
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bohol
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Indonesia
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
North Kana
Where They Speak
Indonesia
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
164
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Visayan
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
javanais
cebuano
German Name
Javanisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Cebuano people
Origin
450 AD
16th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
1162
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
jav
ceb
ISO 639 3
jav
ceb
ISO 639 6
jav
ceb
Glottocode
java1253
cebu1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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