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Name:
Javanese
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Javanisch; Jawa; Djawa; Kawi
Spoken in:
Malaysia, Singapore, Netherlands, Indonesia
Number of speakers:
84,300,000 in Indonesia (2000 census). 25,000 in south Sulawesi, and 69,000,000 on Java, 500,000 of them being in Banten region and 2,500,000 in Cirebon region of Java. Population total all countries: 84,608,470
(Ethnologue)
Code:
jav
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Austronesian
Parent Subgroup:
Javanese; Java; Javanic (java)
Child Dialect Groups:
West Javanese (jav-wes)
East Javanese (jav-eas)
Child Dialects:
Tembung (jav-tem)
Jawa Halus (jav-jaw)
Pasisir (jav-pas)
Manuk (jav-man)
Indramayu (jav-ind)
Map of Javanese
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