Countries
Indonesia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2123
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
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
matur nuwun
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
matur nuwun
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Wu
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Yue
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
javanais
chinois
German Name
Javanisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Han
Origin
450 AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Chinese
Language Position
111
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
zho
ISO 639 2/B
jav
chi
ISO 639 3
jav
zho
ISO 639 6
jav
zho
Glottocode
java1253
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating