Countries
Indonesia
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2133
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
matur nuwun
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
matur nuwun
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Intha
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Burma
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
165
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
javanais
birman
German Name
Javanisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Bamar people
Origin
450 AD
1113 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Javanese
Modern Burmese
Language Position
1143
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
mya
ISO 639 2/B
jav
bur
ISO 639 3
jav
mya
ISO 639 6
jav
mya
Glottocode
java1253
sout3159
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
Analytic, Isolating