Countries
Indonesia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2143
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Molo
Thank You
matur nuwun
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Unjani
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Molo
Please
matur nuwun
Ndicela
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Indonesia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Thembu
Where They Speak
Indonesia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
169
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
javanais
xhosa
German Name
Javanisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
450 AD
16th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
isiXhosa
Language Position
1121
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
xho
ISO 639 2/B
jav
xho
ISO 639 3
jav
xho
ISO 639 6
jav
xho
Glottocode
java1253
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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