Countries
Indonesia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2799
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2114
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
matur nuwun
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
matur nuwun
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Cirebon
Hakata
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arekan
Kansai
Where They Speak
Indonesia
kansai
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1631
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
日本語
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Nihongo
French Name
javanais
japonais
German Name
Javanisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
450 AD
1185
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Javanese
Japanese
Language Position
118
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
jav
jpn
ISO 639 3
jav
jpn
ISO 639 6
jav
jpn
Glottocode
java1253
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic