Javanese leid
- "Bahasa Jawi" redirects here. For the Malay dialect spoken in Pattani, Thailand, see Pattani Malay.
Javanese | |
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ꦧꦱꦗꦮ (Basa Jawa) | |
Native tae | Java (Indonesie), Suriname, New Caledon |
Ethnicity | Javanese, Osing, Tenggerese |
Native speakers | 100 million (2011)[1] |
Austronesian
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Early form | |
Javanese alphabet (optional) Pegon alphabet (releegious use) Latin (general) | |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | jv |
ISO 639-2 | jav |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:jav – Javanesejvn – Caribbean Javanesejas – New Caledonian Javaneseosi – Osingtes – Tenggeresekaw – Old Javanese |
![]() Dark green: auries whaur Javanese is the majority leid. Licht green: whaur it is a minority leid. |
Javanese /dʒɑːvəˈniːz/[2] (Javanese: ꦧꦱꦗꦮ basa Jawa; Indonesie: bahasa Jawa) is the leid o the Javanese fowk frae the central an eastren pairts o the island o Java, in Indonesie. Thare are an aa pockets o Javanese speakers in the northren coast o wastren Java. It is the native leid o mair nor 100,000,000 fowk (mair nor 43% o tot population in Indonesie).
Javanese is pairt o the Austronesian faimily. Maist speakers o Javanese an aa speak Indonesie: for offeecial an commercial purposes, an tae communicate wi non-Javanese Indonesies.
Thare are speakers o Javanese in Malaysie (concentratit in the states o Selangor an Johor) an Singapore. Some fowk o Javanese strynd in Suriname (the Dutch colony o Suriname till 1975) speak a creole descendant o the leid.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
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