Countries
Indonesia
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2744
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2132
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
sannu
Thank You
matur nuwun
gode ku
How Are You?
piye kabare?
yaya dai
Good Night
wengi sing apik
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
barka da rana
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
mai kyau safe
Please
matur nuwun
Don Allah
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
yi hakuri
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
sai anjima
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Ghana
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Niger
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Niger
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1620
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.52 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
javanais
haoussa
German Name
Javanisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
450 AD
14
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Chadic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Hausa
Language Position
1134
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
hau
ISO 639 2/B
jav
hau
ISO 639 3
jav
hau
ISO 639 6
jav
hau
Glottocode
java1253
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional