Countries
Indonesia
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
-
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Malay language
Derived From
-
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2119
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
47
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Halo
Thank You
matur nuwun
Terima kasih
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Apa kabar?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Selamat Pagi
Please
matur nuwun
mohon Untuk
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
maaf
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Permisi
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Balinese
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1646
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
javanais
indonésien
German Name
Javanisch
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Indonesians
Origin
450 AD
7th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Javanese
Indonesian
Language Position
1156
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
ind
ISO 639 2/B
jav
ind
ISO 639 3
jav
ind
ISO 639 6
jav
ind
Glottocode
java1253
indo1316
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative