Countries
Indonesia
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Ħello
Thank You
matur nuwun
Grazzi
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Kif int?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
matur nuwun
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Skużani!
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Ċaw
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Qormi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Malta
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Malta
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Not Present
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
162
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Malti
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Malti
French Name
javanais
maltais
German Name
Javanisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Maltese
Origin
450 AD
c. 1470
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Maltese
Language Position
1125
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
jav
mlt
ISO 639 3
jav
mlt
ISO 639 6
jav
mlt
Glottocode
java1253
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic