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Javanese
Javanese

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Countries

Countries

Indonesia
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Indonesia
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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
Zambia

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.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Zulu language

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2731
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2118
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

45
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Halo
Moni

Thank You

matur nuwun
Zikomo

How Are You?

piye kabare?
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

wengi sing apik
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

Sugeng sọnten
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

Sugeng siang
Masana abwino

Good Morning

Sugeng énjing
M'mawa wabwino

Please

matur nuwun
Chonde

Sorry

Nyuwun pangapunten
pepani

Bye

Kepanggih malih benjang
anatsanzikana

I Love You

Kula tresna panjengan
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

Nuwun séwu
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Pekalongan
Kasungu

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cirebon
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Arekan
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

165
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

82.00 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.25 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

76.00 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

82.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

basa Jawa
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Djawa, Jawa
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

javanais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Javanisch
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Chewa people

History

Origin

450 AD
15th Century

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Indonesian
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Javanese
Chewa

Language Position

1127
1 120
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Signed Forms

Javanese Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

jv
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jav
nya

ISO 639 2/B

jav
nya

ISO 639 3

jav
nya

ISO 639 6

jav
nya

Glottocode

java1253
nyan1308

Linguasphere

No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
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Javanese and Chewa Alphabets

Javanese and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Javanese and Chewa. In Javanese Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Javanese and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Javanese and Chewa languages. The Javanese phonology consist Javanese vowels and Javanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Javanese greetings vs Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Javanese and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Javanese and Chewa 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 Javanese and Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Javanese and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Javanese are spoken in different Javanese Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Javanese vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan, Cirebon. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Javanese and Chewa Speaking population

Javanese and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. 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 Javanese and Chewa on Javanese vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Javanese and Chewa Language Codes

Javanese and Chewa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Javanese and Chewa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.