Countries
Burkina Faso
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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.
Similar To
Dagbani Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2627
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1621
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
Halo
Thank You
Laafi bala
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Ne y yungo
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
ne y zabre
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
Sugeng énjing
Please
gafare
matur nuwun
Sorry
gafare
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Y gafare
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Saremde
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Taolende
Arekan
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
816
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
moré
javanais
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
11th Century AD
450 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indonesian
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Mossi
Javanese
Language Position
3711
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
jav
ISO 639 2/B
mos
jav
ISO 639 3
mos
jav
ISO 639 6
mos
jav
Glottocode
moss1236
java1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative