Countries
Indonesia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
matur nuwun
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
matur nuwun
कृपया
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Doteli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
javanais
népalais
German Name
Javanisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
450 AD
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Javanese
Nepali
Language Position
1159
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
jv
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
nep
ISO 639 2/B
jav
nep
ISO 639 3
jav
npi
ISO 639 6
jav
nep
Glottocode
java1253
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative