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Javanese
Javanese

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Countries

Countries

Indonesia
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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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

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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

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2799
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

1631
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

82.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.25 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

76.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

82.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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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)

History

Origin

450 AD
1185

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indonesian
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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

Code

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

Javanese and Japanese Alphabets

Javanese and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Javanese and Japanese. In Javanese Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Javanese and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Javanese and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Javanese and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Javanese and Japanese Speaking population

Javanese and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Javanese vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Javanese and Japanese Language Codes

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