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Javanese
Javanese

Sinhalese
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Javanese and Sinhalese

Countries

Countries

Indonesia
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Indonesia
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.

Similar To

Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Maldivian Language

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2754
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

618
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2136
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

42
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Halo
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

matur nuwun
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

piye kabare?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

wengi sing apik
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Sugeng sọnten
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Sugeng siang
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Sugeng énjing
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

matur nuwun
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

Nyuwun pangapunten
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Kepanggih malih benjang
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Kula tresna panjengan
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Nuwun séwu
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Pekalongan
Vedda

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cirebon
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Indonesia
-

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Arekan
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Indonesia
-

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

161
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

82.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.25 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

76.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

82.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

basa Jawa
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Djawa, Jawa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

javanais
singhalais

German Name

Javanisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

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

History

Origin

450 AD
3

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indonesian
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Javanese
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

1170
1 120
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Signed Forms

Javanese Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

jv
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jav
sin

ISO 639 2/B

jav
sin

ISO 639 3

jav
sin

ISO 639 6

jav
sin

Glottocode

java1253
sinh1246

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional

Javanese and Sinhalese Alphabets

Javanese and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Javanese and Sinhalese. In Javanese Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Javanese and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Javanese and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Javanese and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Javanese and Sinhalese Speaking population

Javanese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 Sinhalese on Javanese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Javanese and Sinhalese Language Codes

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