Countries
Indonesia
India, Manipur
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
Regulated By
-
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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.
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2727
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2115
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Khurumjari
Thank You
matur nuwun
Yamna nungaijare
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Athengba Ahing
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
মানিপুরি
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Nongale haugatl
Please
matur nuwun
Chanbiduna
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Saobiganu
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Chatcharage
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Eina nangbu nungsi
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
দুঃখিত
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Loi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Burma, Laos
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.005,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Pangal
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bangladesh, India
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00273,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Meithei proper
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,250,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
166
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million1.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million1.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
মৈইতৈইলোন
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
French Name
javanais
Meithei
German Name
Javanisch
Meithei
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Meithei people
Origin
450 AD
1700
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Meithei
Language Position
1138
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Meithei Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
jv
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
mni
ISO 639 2/B
jav
mni
ISO 639 3
jav
mni
ISO 639 6
jav
mni
Glottocode
java1253
mani1292
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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